Em busca de um teatro popular contemporâneo

Abstract

Is there a place for theater in contemporary societies and cultures? What role would this delicate and ancient vehicle of art and culture have in a time dominated by powerful “creative industries” and the media empire? Cultural foundation of the turn of the 21st century, the sophisticated and free worldwide network to which the old and new “media” converge, transmits, in real time, content, music, information and audiovisual pieces of fiction and documentaries, in “high definition” ”, and cases that are sometimes accessed and shared by millions of users in a few minutes. In addition, these networks instantly interconnect people located in virtually any part of the world. In this context, can one think of an effectively popular theater? A present, necessary and socially significant theater? In Search of a Contemporary Popular Theater is a study that seeks to understand the current crisis of the theater from an esthetics of reception and the concept of theater chronotopes.