A trajetória do teatro engajado no Brasil a partir da obra dramatúrgica de Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (1959-1964).

Abstract

This project focuses on the relationship between theater and class struggle in Brazil, specifically within the context of the 1950s and 1960s. To this end, it takes as its object of research the theatrical work of the playwright and communist activist Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha). During a period of effervescence in social movements and great influence of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) on artists, engaged art on the left emerged, finding resonance in various fields: cinema, literature, music, visual arts, and theater. For many artists and intellectuals, such as Vianinha, who envisioned social transformation, art became a powerful instrument in support of a revolutionary political project. This project sought not only to transmit engaged culture to the people but also to move towards a horizon where the people themselves would own the means of cultural production, becoming producers of culture themselves. This research adopts Vianinha's theatrical plays produced up to 1964, aiming to contribute academically to the understanding of theater as a field of struggle for hegemony. Therefore, it is situated within the historiographical current of historical-dialectical materialism, that is, culture is understood not in terms of itself, but within the context of class struggle. The sources used will be theatrical plays, biographies, essays, and interviews with the artists and intellectuals. To this end, the proposal engages with Marxist scholars such as Antonio Gramsci (1982), Raymond Williams (1979, 2005, 2011), Iná Camargo (2012, 2016), and Marcelo Ridenti (2006, 2016, 2018).