Brazilian Collaborative Theater: Interviews with Directors, Performers and Choreographers

 Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression. This collection of 15 interviews includes some of the country’s most prolific creative minds—Zé Celso (Teatro Oficina), Antunes Filho, Gerald Thomas, Nós do Morro, Rudolfo Vásquez (Os Satyros), Antônio Araujo (Teatro Vertigem), Enrique Díaz (Cia do Atores) and Lia Rodrigues, to name a few—discussing their approaches to the collaborative theater process. They describe a collective creative environment in which practitioners are concerned with fundamental questions about social, cultural and artistic contexts in which productions are staged, and the interdisciplinary climate that predominated from the beginning of the 1980s.