César Falcón and the Theatre Company Nosotros
Abstract
In the theatre scene of the 1930s in Spain, in addition to the traditional commercial theatre and the republican avant-garde of Las Misiones Pedagógicas or La Barraca, an alternative proposal emerged whose objectives went beyond the pedagogical and the artistic. Proletarian, or political theatre, linked to European theatrical avant-garde with Soviet roots, was inspired by the principles of Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. They proposed, from a Marxist perspective, class struggle as means to achieve an alternative socialist model. The theatre company Nosotros, directed by Peruvian exile César Falcón, is the best example of this theatrical avant-garde.
Submitted: April 24, 2020 | Accepted: Sept. 5, 2020 | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language: es
Keywords Latin American writers in Republican Spain • Literatura proletaria • Republican theatrical vanguards • César Falcón • | Vanguardias teatrales republicanas • Escritores hispanoamericanos en la España republic • Political theatre • Proletarian literature • Teatro político
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