This is an attempt to situate artistic, particularly theatrical creation, within the specific ideological environment of recent years in Brazil, in which the so-called “progressive front,” under threat, seems increasingly impervious to critical and self-critical thinking. The article seeks to merge analyses of several significant theatrical events from recent years to propose a perspective on dissident thinking in a period of reflux such as the one we are experiencing.
Alexandre Sobreira Martins (Mon,) studied this question.