Teatro do Pequeno Gesto: The Last Tango in Nelson Rodrigues’ Rio de Janeiro

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  • David George Lake Forest College, Illinois, Estados Unidos

Abstract

The playwright Nelson Rodrigues is considered as the main responsible for beginning the modernization process of the Brazilian Theatre. Among the plays he wrote is A Serpente (The Serpent), directed by Antonio Guedes with his Rio de Janeiro company Teatro do Pequeno Gesto. The article proposes to demonstrate that the staging faithfully illustrates Rodrigues’ text by means of a Grotowskian poor-theatre production, which includes minimalist stagecraft, simple costumes, a style of movement that belongs as much to dance as to marking places, and lighting that changes according to the number of characters on stage, emotional states, and style of movement. The production offers a combination of choreography, music, poor-theatre techniques, and most important, Nelson Rodrigues’ minimalist play that tells the story of the poisonous serpent of love, betrayal, the lethal power of sex, and Paradise lost.

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Author Biography

David George, Lake Forest College, Illinois, Estados Unidos

DAVID GEORGE nasceu em 1942, na cidade norte-americana de Minneapolis. Fez graduação, mestrado e PhD em literatura latino-americana, na Universidade de Minnesota. É professor de espanhol e português, com ênfase em literatura latino-americana, literatura brasileira, teatro brasileiro e estudos latino-americanos, no Lake Forest College (Chicago). É também diretor de teatro, tendo participado de grupos de referência nos Estados Unidos. No Brasil, dirigiu A Noite dos Assassinos, com alunos da ECA/USP, ganhando vários prêmios, no Festival Amador do SESC, em 1984. É autor de diversos livros e artigos publicados em inglês e português, dentre eles Teatro e Antropofagia (Global, 1986), Grupo Macunaíma: Carnavalizacão e Mito (USP/ Perspectiva, 1990), Flash & Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period (Garland, 2000) e Nelson Rodrigues and the Invention of Brazilian Drama (Latin American Theater Review Press, 2010).

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Published

2015-12-31

How to Cite

GEORGE, D. Teatro do Pequeno Gesto: The Last Tango in Nelson Rodrigues’ Rio de Janeiro. Art on Stage Journal, Goiânia, v. 2, n. 1, p. 38–48, 2015. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/artce/article/view/39285. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): Aberturas da Cena

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Varied Themes

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