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.
Keywords: Escritores hispanoamericanos en la España republic • César Falcón • Proletarian literature • Teatro político • Latin American writers in Republican Spain • Republican theatrical vanguards • Literatura proletaria • Political theatre • | Vanguardias teatrales republicanas