From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão," lead by Antônio Conselheiro. The final result was a pentalogy, formed by the plays A Terra (2002), O Homem I (2003), O Homem II (2003), A Luta I (2005), and A Luta II (2006), totalizing 27 hours of theater. Os Sertões reads the episodes of the war in light of past and present Brazilian history, and in relation to the struggle of the group against media mogul Sílvio Santos, who wanted to tear down the historic theater to build a shopping mall.
Dedicated to "all the power of the Un-massacre of Art and to the effects of the Trans-Human power of the Crowd," the staging of the last part of the book deals with the fourth and last expedition by the Brazilian National Army to the Northeastern "sertão." 12 thousand soldiers, cannons, and modern weapons where deployed, together with modern strategists such as Marshal Bittencourt who, for the first time in the history of the Brazilian Army, established an operational base away from the front, from where he commanded the maneuvers that General Arthur Oscar and his deputy, the blood-thirsty General Barbosa, executed. The play shows the end of the War of Canudos, which resulted in the massacre of the sertanejos, the death of Antônio Conselheiro himself (who went to meet God), and the destruction of the citadel. In Teatro Oficina, the massacre is performed not as a mass for the repetition of the martyrdom, but from the perspective of an un-massacre. By exposing this closed abscess of Brazilian History in the Public Square of Theater, it wishes to lance it once and for all, to purge it from the everyday practice of Brazilian life. Canudos did not surrender, and Euclides da Cunha ends his book by reminding us that it is not one of defense, but of attack.
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Video:
HIDVL Video
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Title:
Os Sertões: A luta 2 - do des-massacre ao reinício
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Alternate Title:
Os Sertões: The struggle 2 - from de-massacre to restart
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Holdings:
photo gallery, program, script, video (HIDVL)
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Duration:
06:13:32
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Language:
Portuguese
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Date:
2006
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Location:
São Paulo, Brazil
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Type-Format:
play, performance
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Cast:
Adão Filho, Adriana Capparelli, Adriana Viegas, Adriano Salhab, André Santana Lagartixa, Anna Guilhermina, Aury Porto, Camila Mota, Daniel Camilo, Danilo Tomic, Elenildo de Moura Uga, Fernando Coimbra, Fioravante Almeida, Francisco Rodrigues Rato, Fransérgio Araújo, Freddy Allan, Frederick Steffen Benfica, Gabriel Fernandes, Guilherme Calzavara, Ito Alves, Juliane Elting, Karina Buhr, Letícia Coura, Marcelo Drummond, Mariana de Moraes, Mariano Mattos Martins, Naomy Schölling, Otávio Ortega, Ricardo Bittencourt, Rodolfo Dias Paes – Dipa, Sálvio do Prado, Samuel de Assis, Sylvia Prado, Vera Barreto Leite, Wilson Feitosa Jr., Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, Zé de Paiva;
BIXIGÃO: Aneliê Schinaider, Ariclenes Barroso, Beiço – Gilmário Júnior, Cíntia Ingrid, Débora Santos, Edísio do Santos, Edna do Santos, Geni de Lira, Isabela Santana, Ivan Cardoso, Jacqueline Braga, Jhonatha Ferreira, Juliane Lira, Laene Santana, Luna Oliveira, Talita Martins, Thiago Martinho, Xandy
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Credits:
José Celso Martinez Corrêa, director; Camila Mota, assistant director; Catherine Hirsch, adviser;
José Celso Martinez Corrêa, dramaturgy;
Marcelo Pellegrini, musical direction and original soundtrack;
Maura Baiocchi, Wolfgang Pannek, and Haroldo Alves, choreography;
Irene Selka, Ivan Andrade, Ricardo Morañez, lighting design;
Fernando Coimbra, video;
Elisete Jeremias and Rodrigo Andreolli, stage directors;
Osvaldo Gabrieli, art director and set design;
Sônia Ushiyama, Sônia Moraes Cabrocha, costume design;
Ana Rúbia de Melo, Bia Fonseca, and Freddy Lopes, producers.
Os Sertões: A luta 2 — do des-massacre ao reinício (2006)
Os Sertões: A Luta II, program with script (POR) (Image Gallery
Video
Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/pg4f4sff
Published in
Teatro Oficina: Works