FACULDADE DE FILOSOFIA, LETRAS E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS DA

UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Departamento de Letras Modernas
Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários em Inglês

TÓPICOS DO TEATRO (FLM 0582)

2018, 1st. Sem.

Profa. Dra. Maria Sílvia Betti

Characteristics
One-semester elective course focusing on topics that expressively and centrally
represent aspects of modern and contemporary drama and theater.

2018 TOPIC:

1968: OFF OFF BROADWAY (NEW YORK) AND THE THEATRE OF

RESISTANCE (SÃO PAULO).

Objectives
To introduce the analytical and critical discussion of drama, theater and of the
ways through which they represent and respond to cultural, philosophical, political and
historical forces in different contexts.

Academic justification for the subject

The discussion of dramaturgy and of different forms of theatrical practices is
part of a culturally relevant and socially responsible process of formation of literature
teachers, researchers and readers.
There are only a few regularly offered courses in FFLCH focusing on the study
of dramaturgy and theater. The area of English is one of the few in the whole FFLCH to
offer students the possibility of being introduced to the study of dramaturgy and theater.
The analytical skills and theoretical references involved in this course will
introduce future literature researchers and teachers to the study of dramaturgy and
theater. These analytical skills can be applied in the study of theater plays in other
programs and courses as well.

Academic justification for the chosen topic

2018 is the 50.th anniversary of the general strikes and of the occupation of
universities in France, of the students’ demonstrations in Berlin and Amsterdam, of the
protest marches against the Vietnam war in several cities of the U.S., of the beginning
of the Tet offensive, of the assassination of Martin Luther King and of the race riots in
Chicago and in several other cities of the U.S.
In Brazil, in 1968, Institutional Act No. 5, the most infamous of all
Institutional Acts imposed by the military government, closed the national congress
indefinitely, gave the military president ample powers, institutionalized censorship of
the press and media , imposed torture, political persecution, the suppression of civil
rights. In the same period of time the emergence of urban and rural guerrilla
organizations was observed.
 What were the expressive resources and perspectives that dramaturgy and
theater used at that time to represent all these transformations of the political, cultural
and social spheres, and how dramaturgy and the theater responded to the many
challenges faced in practically all areas of social and political organization, social life
and the forms of existence that existed until then?
The 2018 Theater Topics Program is intended to discuss a series of plays that
somehow connect with the Off Off Broadway theater (New York) and with the arena of
resistance theater in Sao Paulo in 1968 and / or in previous years.
The discussion will contribute to shed light on some of the most representative
challenges that dramaturgy and theater have ever faced: the one of dealing with drastic
and broad processes of transformation and struggle, and the one of responding to them
within their field of work and expression.

PROGRAM: the following plays will be discussed (copies will be left at the
Copier’s folder)

Petty Bourgeois. (Pequenos Burgueses) Maxim Gorki.

Señora Carrar’s rifles. (Os fuzis da Senhora Carrar) Bertolt Brecht.

The Life of Galileo. (Galileu Galilei) . Bertolt Brecht.

The Zoo Story. (A História do Jardim Zoológico) Edward Albee.

Interview. (Entrevista) Jean-Claude van Itallie.

Dutchman. (O Poder Negro) LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. (Hair) James Rado and Gerome Ragni;
music by Galt MacDermot.

Papa Highirte. Oduvaldo Vianna Filho

Arena conta Zumbi. Gianfrancesco Guarnieri and Augusto Boal.

Methodology
Analysis and discussion of theater plays and of their structure and underlying
conceptions.
Evaluation

Mid Semester: a 4 point Theatre Review.

Final Evaluation: the following options will be given (students are expected to
make their options):
A 6 point Test on the plays studied in the Program
A 6 point Seminar on a previously chosen theme
A 6 point Dramatic Reading of a scene or of a short play

Final Grade= Mid Semester + Final Evaluation

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