Contemporary Magazine Theater: history, teaching and reexistence.
Magazine Theater; Contemporary; Theater Education.
The Teatro de Revista Brasileira is a genre of popular theater whose nature is to review the facts, the events that mark public opinion. Its main characteristics are timeliness, comicality, criticality, lightness, musicality, popularity and sensoriality.
This type of theater emerged in colonial Brazil in the mid-19th century from European influences. It started as Revista de Ano (in which the shows presented retrospectives of the years that ended) and remained after more than one hundred years filling the theater buildings, mainly in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Its conventions have been transformed throughout history - until the Magazine became typically Brazilian; and its weakening was due to the strong censorship established with the coup of 64, with the rise of new media technologies (spoken cinema, television, etc.), with the change of public interest and other social, economic and cultural issues. It just cannot be denied (more!) The importance of Teatro de Revista for the history of theater in the country. Even today, its conventions are widely used in audiovisual productions, mainly in television, theater and transformism shows. For historians of the genre, the magazine died, but is it really that such a resilient genre would die like that? There was no death at the Revista Theater. There was a silence. It is certain that that theater of yore will never return, and even contemporary times would not accept it as it was; but there are those who make magazines today, different from the past, but with the same nature, which allows us to affirm: yes, there is a Contemporary Magazine Theater. This thesis makes a review of the history of the genre, denouncing the attempts of “revisticide” and announcing its forms of reexistence, discusses its main paradigms in contemporary times and brings examples of scenic montage practices in artistic-pedagogical processes in formal and non-formal teaching of art / theater developed in Salvador and Ilhéus - BA.