La Barraca Teatro Universitário : reflexões sobre encenação (Espanha 1931-1936)

Abstract

THE PROTAGONIST OF this work is a theater company called La Barraca University Theatre. It was characterized by being an itinerant troupe who served in Spain in the first half of the twentieth century, between the years 1931 and 1936 The direction of this was done by Federico García Lorca, activity which he had exercised voluntarily as creator, director and actor. Our discussion of the company is appealing the consideration that, in the management of their ideals regardless of political experience, aesthetic and pedagogical, production proposed a debate with society in order to formulate a present-future using the theatrical staging. The hypothesis is that the theatrical make this company aligned to a modernization movement in Spain seeking a new national theater. The methodological approach for the development of research seeks to establish a dialogue with the reframing of staged works and the context of the scenario. The extension activity representing La Barraca University Theatre conceives a theater that values cultural elements in its own time-space of the staged spectacles proposing an instrumentalisation of popular. A theatrical performance is a here / now that converges a practice of academics and artists in an encounter with popular mutually located within a cultural program of social action during the Second Spanish Republic. Our reflection on such company considers the experience of the activities gestated in view the pedagogical experience lived in a proposed repertory theater. In selecting works for shows presented, proposing itself an appreciation of literature and the Spanish theater with the goal of formulating a present-future. The selected works are part of a preference of texts in which it is possible to establish a dialogue with the reform process in Spain back in 1931 and 1936. But beyond this, these texts have an embryo staging that dialogues with prospects of a new theater. In these circumstances, La Barraca University Theatre was an itinerant theater company that cared about art, but if characterized as a means of communication between intellectuals, artists and popular in social action whose course was directed to the promotion of a production aimed at popularization of the national theater.