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Prólogo, Ángel Berenguer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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Deseos Expresados, Deseos (Indesea)Dos: Sistemas Y Procesos Para El Control De Las Estrategias Creativas Del Yo En La Sociedad Contemporánea, Ángel Berenguer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Propuesta teórica sobre la génesis de la censura en las sociedades contemporáneas, relacionando la perspectiva del YO y su conflicto con un entorno que proscribe los deseos del ciudadano libre. Se parte de la práctica censora de la dictadura del General Franco en el ámbito del teatro para elaborar aspectos teóricos que explican no sólo las acciones del régimen, sino su propia historia interna.

Theoretical proposal about the genesis of censorship in contemporary society, relating the SELF and its conflict with the surrounding environment which proscribes the desires of the free citizen. Starting with the study of censorship practices under …

Los Expedientes De La Censura Teatral Como Fuente Para La Investigación Del Teatro Español Contemporáneo, Berta Muñoz Cáliz

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo se analiza el papel que han jugado hasta el momento los expedientes de la censura teatral del Archivo General de la Administración como fuente para el estudio del teatro español del franquismo y se ofrece una bibliografía con los trabajos publicados a partir de esta documentación.

This article examines the role played so far by the files of theatrical censorship preserved in the General Archive of the Administration as a source for the study of the Spanish theatre during Franco´s regime. The author also presents a bibliography with the works published from these files.

Trânsitos Da Censura O Teatro Como Resistência Cultural Ao Autoritarismo, Roseli Figaro

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Esto artículo discute los tránsitos de la cultura y de la censura entre el Brasil y España por medio del teatro popular y no profesional, encenados por los inmigrantes españoles, en la ciudad de São Paulo. Este tema es parte del eje de la investigación «A cena paulista: um estudo da produção cultural de São Paulo de 1930 el 1970», del Archivo Miroel Silveira, de la Biblioteca de la Escuela de Comunicaciones y Artes de la Universidad de São Paulo, que tiene financiación de la Fundación de la Ayuda a la Investigación del Estado de São Paulo. La colección se …

Brasil E Portugal - Afinidades Eletiva No Trato Da Política E Da Cultura, Maria Cristina Castilho Costa

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Este trabajo trata de las afinidades que han existido entre Portugal y Brasil en la primera mitad del siglo XX, cuando al amparo del Estado Novo instalado en ambos países, por Antonio de Oliveira Salazar y Getúlio Vargas, respectivamente, se crearon condiciones de amplia cooperación cultural y de control de la producción artística y de la libertad de expresión.

This article examines the relations between Portugal and Brasil on the first half of the XXth Century, when «Estado Novo» was established in both countries by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and Getúlio Vargas respectively with close cultural cooperation and similar ways …

La Censura En El Teatro Venezolano (1900-1960), Luis Chesney-Lawrence

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo analiza la situación de la censura, en su acepción más amplia, en el teatro venezolano durante el período comprendido entre 1900 y 1960. Su desarrollo se realiza teniendo presentes las premisas metodológicas basadas en la Teoría de los motivos y estrategias. En este sentido se presentan los orígenes de la censura, las normas que se establecieron, se reseñan diversos casos donde se observan sus efectos a lo largo del tiempo y se exponen los motivos y estrategias que llevaron a sus autores a plantearse estrategias creativas para efectuar una ruptura y denunciar su presencia en escena.

This …

La Censura Del Teatro Republicano De Pedro Muñoz Seca Y Pedro Pérez Fernández, Carlos Alba Peinado

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El artículo compila la información existente en los expedientes de censura sobre las catorce obras estrenadas por Pedro Muñoz Seca en colaboración con Pedro Pérez Fernández durante la II República (1931-1936). Este material está compuesto principalmente por las tachaduras efectuadas en los textos, las Guías de Censura y las solicitudes de las compañías.

This article compiles the information from the censorship files regarding the fourteen plays premiered by Pedro Muñoz Seca along with Pedro Pérez Fernández over Spain’s Second Republic (1931-1936). This documentation is made up of erasures on the texts, Censorship’s Guides and Applications by the Companies.

Ak Y La Humanidad: Una Obra Bajo Sospecha, Pedro Cataslán García

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

A principios de septiembre de 1938, a los nueve días de su estreno en el Español y en plena Guerra Civil, la obra teatral Ak y la Humanidad, original de la escritora Halma Angélico, y adaptación del cuento del mismo título del autor ruso Jefim Sosulia, fue suspendida por orden gubernativa tras una tensa polémica desatada en la prensa anarquista contra la obra y su autora.

At the beginning of September 1938, nine days after its premiere at the Teatro Español and in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, the theatre performance Ak and Mankind, written originally by Halma …

La Reescritura Dramática En Época Franquista: El Teatro De Manuel Y Antonio Machado Visto Por Los Censores, Rosa Sanmartín Pérez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El artículo aborda la importancia que tuvo la censura durante los años del franquismo en la obra dramática de Manuel y Antonio Machado. Cómo la manipulación de esos textos dio lugar a nuevas escrituras que deformaban la esencia de la escritura teatral original.

This paper focuses on the censorship’s prominent role throughout Francoism and its impact on both Manuel and Antonio Machado’s work. Special attention will be paid to the manipulating of their texts.

La Censura Y La Crítica Teatrales: Correpondencia Y Documentos Entre Fernando Lázaro Carreter Y José María Rodríguez Mendez, Jorge Herreros Martínez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo pretende un doble propósito: por un lado, presentar ocho cartas hasta ahora inéditas que Fernando Lázaro Carreter envió a José María Rodríguez Méndez entre los años 1972 y 1976, y un pequeño artículo a modo de respuesta a toda esa correspondencia escrito recientemente ex profeso para esta publicación por el dramaturgo madrileño; por otro lado, partiendo de los anteriores documentos, el estudio pretende mostrar las evidentes relaciones entre la crítica y la censura teatrales en un momento bastante convulso de la historia reciente de España.

This article has been written with a double purpose: on the one …

Transcripción De La Correspondencia Personal De Fernando Lázaro Carreter Enviada A José María Rodríguez Méndez, José María Rodríguez Méndez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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El Teatro Universitario Durante Los Años 50: La Presencia De José Martín Recuerda Dentro Del Teu De Granada, Antonio César Morón Espinosa

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

José Martín Recuerda (1922-2007) fue director del TEU de Granada durante los años 1952-1959. Esta es una de las etapas fundamentales de su carrera, en la que el autor granadino inicia sus primeros contactos con el teatro y estrena, además, tres de sus primeras obras. De modo que se podría decir que es en estos años donde se configura la que luego será una de las escrituras dramáticas más importantes del siglo XX.

José Martín Recuerda (1922-2007) was director in the TEU of Granada during the 1952-1959 period. This is one of the fundamental stage in his career, because it’s …

Ocho Cartas De Fernando Lazaro Carreter, José María Rodríguez Méndez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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La Censura Teatral Bajo El Franquismo: La Vicesecretaría De Educación Popular (1941-1945), Emeterio Diez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El nombramiento de Gabriel Arias Salgado como Vicesecretario de Educación Popular en 1941 introduce un importante cambio en el ejercicio de la censura franquista. En primer lugar, Arias Salgado decide volver a censurar todo lo que antes habían censurado los sospechosos falangistas radicales protegidos de Serrano Suñer. En segundo lugar, su prevención contra las «pasiones» del público y su recelo contra los artistas conllevan un aumento del número de obras prohibidas o con tachaduras.

In 1941 Gabriel Arias Salgado arrives to Subsecretary of Popular Education. Arias Salgado introduces an important change in the theatrical censorship. In the first place, Arias …

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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Estrategias Léxico-Grammaticales De Los Censores En La Manipulación De Dos Comedias De Jardiel Poncela, José Suárez-Inclán

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el artículo se analizan y comentan cambios y modificaciones estilísticas realizadas por los censores en dos obras de teatro de humor de Enrique Jardiel Poncela. Tales intervenciones conllevan una intencionalidad que pretende modificar otros elementos en el terreno del contenido.

In this article we analyse and comment the changes and stylistic modifications made by the censors in two of the humour plays written by Enrique Jardiel Poncela. These alterations entail an intentionality that seeks to modify other thematic elements.

“Our Theater,” In Performance, Debra Castillo

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The final chapter of Miguel Rubio Zapata’s El cuerpo ausente (performance político) ‘Absent body (political performance)’ begins with an epigraph from Antonin Artaud, at first glance a very unexpected inspiration for a group famed for its politically-charged performances...

The Gothic Genre Beyond Borders: Mathew Lewis’S Influence On José De Espronceda’S El Estudiante De Salamanca, Francisco Fernández

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

Once the Gothic crossed the Spanish border, a number of writers were influenced by this genre. This is the case of José de Espronceda in his El estudiante de Salamanca (1840). Influenced by Matthew Lewis’sThe Monk, Espronceda not only uses Gothic conventions when he creates a protagonist haunted by a ghost but also subverts them by reversing the villain-victim relationship for the sake of poetic justice. As a result, the development of the plot is more strongly justified, for the hero’s sins are, after all, what lead him to his tragic end.

Where The Wild Things Go: Tourism And Ethnic Longing In The Theatre Of Rodolfo Santana , Vicky Unruh

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Tapping into the performative intricacies of tourist activity and showcasing the negotiations of performed ethnicity in the implicit contrasts between tourists and the people they travel to see, Latin American and U.S. Latino theatre artists use the tourist character or theme to investigate the cultural negotiations marking contemporary social life. This work parallels critical theory that investigates the tourist as an improvisatory player in trans-regional interactions and unpacks the tourist-“native” binary to revise conceptions of people and cultures that travel. As exemplified in two plays by Rodolfo Santana (Venezuela), artists deploy the tourist theme to critique culturalism, that is, to …

The Procession That Travels Inside: Yuyachkani's "Santiago" , Miguel Rubio Zapata

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In collaborative theater projects like Yuyachkani, it is hard to define the exact moment when a new project begins. Generally we have a very imprecise idea as our initial point of departure and we explore it more fully in the day-to-day work, where it changes a great deal. Santiago is a project that began as a processional performance piece in the public plazas before premiering as a theatrical work in its current form, as a largely Quechua-language play focusing on permutations of faith in an almost uninhabited Andean village. The final project arrived as a result of this complex …

The Lost Apple Plays: Performing Operation Pedro Pan , Kimberly Del Busto Ramírez

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

From 1960 to 1962, more than 14,000 unaccompanied minors took flight from Cuba to the United States, establishing the largest recorded exodus in the Western Hemisphere. The displaced children and the country they left behind are often metaphorized using a popular Latin American nursery rhyme, “The Lost Apple.” Now, more than four decades later, Operation Pedro Pan persists through a revealing body of performance by and about a nation’s exiled children. The Lost Apple Plays investigates how memory, identity formation, nationhood, citizenship, and migration have been dramatized through these performances. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, director/actor/playwright Mario Ernesto Sánchez, singers …

Passion Plays: The Dominican Diaspora In Waddys Jáquez’S P.A.R.G.O., Maja Horn

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This article analyzes how the play P.A.R.G.O. (2001), written, directed, and performed by the Dominican Waddys Jáquez represents the contemporary experience of the Dominican diaspora. Jaquéz himself forms part of a new generation of diasporic artists who frequently return “home,” to the Dominican Republic, and who, unlike the previous generation of diasporic artists and writers, continue to find their most valuable audience there. This tendency towards an increasing interconnectivity between diaspora and homeland is represented and a/effectively reinforced in P.A.R.G.O. The play brings the experience of the diaspora close to home for the audience, not by compelling them to identify …

It’S My (National) Stage Too: Sabina Berman And Jesusa Rodríguez As Public Intellectuals, Stuart A. Day

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Based on interviews with Sabina Berman and Jesusa Rodríguez, this article offers a view of artists as public intellectuals in Mexico. These two prominent figures, in addition to staging biting commentaries on Mexican politics, have reached beyond the traditional theater to take on the role of public intellectuals (artists, activists, professors, performers, writers, among others, who speak truth to power) on the national stage, Berman through a book on the 2006 elections and her television program, Shalalá, and Rodríguez as the stage director for the massive public demonstrations of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Both artists see the importance of reaching …

Dangerous Spaces, Dangerous Liaisons: Performance Arts On And Of The U.S./Mexico Border, Kirsten F. Nigro

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay will consider the performative arts on the border, ranging from script-based plays to performance pieces in urban spaces and public installation pieces. These will be analyzed according to their focus on 1) the plight of the illegal immigrant; 2) the violence that has become a daily factor in the lives of border citizens; and 3) the symbolic efforts to make a sacred space out of one as seemingly unsacred as the border; and if not a sacred space, one that is more transparent and hopefully, less dangerous and threatening.

From The Margins To The Mainstream: Latino/A Theater In The U.S., Jorge Huerta

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The author discusses Latina/o theatre as it evolved from social protest theatre of the 1960s to professional theatre companies and theatre artists working throughout the country. Whereas there were few scholarly articles, no books about Latina/o theatre and no plays in print (in English) in 1970, today there is a wealth of material about the theatre of the three major Latina/o groups, Chicana/os, Cuban-Americans and (mainland) Puerto Ricans. Each of these groups has a distinct relationship to the United States, as expressed in their plays.

Soldados De Salamina (2001): Cercas En Busca De Un Héroe Con El Instinto De La Virtud, Marie Guiribitey

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

The work analyzes the role of literature in reconstructing historical memory and in serving to attest against the collective amnesia which takes place during the transition to democracy in Spain. The recreating of a historic episode during the Civil War allows the narrator of Soldados de Salamina to remake the past and call for the recovery of historical memory. Also examined is Maurice Halbwachs’ premise-the need to maintain “an affective community” in order to arrive at a reconstruction of memories.

La Narrativa De Lucía Etxebarría: Desvelando El Estado Actual De La Mujer Española, Lydia Masanet

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

This article underlines the traits that support the narrative of Lucía Etxebarría in her up-front compromise to unveil and denounce the reality of the Spanish women’s position in the new millennium. The literary universe of Etxebarría, full of false gains, preconditioned determinations, and unreachable expectations, redundantly questions a reality in which women of Spain are immersed, all tricks that if seen from the distance, appear to transfer the practicing of equality mandated by new laws without difficulty.

Mobile Thresholds, Immobile Phones: Staging Migration, Return, And The Empty Home In Recent Ecuadorian Theater , Amalia Gladhart

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians have emigrated, principally to Spain and the United States. A growing body of recent Ecuadorian plays has treated the experiences of the migrants and, tellingly, the experiences of those left behind. This essay focuses on three plays that present migration as a kind of threshold, a space of transition that is paradoxically temporary yet solid: Con estos zapatos me quería comer el mundo ‘With These Shoes I Meant to Take on the World,’ (2002) by Jorge Mateus and Pablo Tatés; El pueblo de las mujeres solas ‘The Village of Solitary Women,’ …

(De)Humanizing Humor: The Anthill Of Life And Politics In The Theatre Of Sabina Berman, Priscilla Meléndez

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This article examines several theatrical works of this Mexican dramatist by means of ironic humor as a powerful resource to examine the nature of human communication, and to expose the serious and devastating social and political aspects of contemporary culture: machismo, political corruption, sexual violence, sexism, exploitation, historical manipulation, and hopelessness. In a tense environment where humor might not seem appropriate, Berman masterfully uses and critically examines it as a means to understand humor’s serious implications and its comic imperfections, as she subtly recurs to but also parodies some of the most recognized theories of humor. Berman’s use of incongruity …

An Account Of Señorita Maquiladora, Rosina Conde

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Performer and scholar Rosina Conde finds that Señorita Maquiladora is the performance piece that has gone through the most transformations, not in its script, but in its text, as it is constantly being rewritten to speak to contemporary social issues. She believes that Señorita Maquiladora has potential because it speaks to global themes that affect workers in the assembly plant industry, not only with respect to the questions of the environment and health, but also in terms of the patriarchial patterns that force these women to compete in an atmosphere of a vertical structure dominated by men, with all the …