Abram-se as cortinas, o primeiro ato vai começar: o Grupo Teatral Amadores Cratenses, 1942-1950.

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the performance of the Theater Group of Cratenses Amateur (GRUTAC) between the years 1942 and 1950 using the approach of Cultural History. The theatrical practice of this group can tell us a lot about the values of cratense society of this period and about the history of amateur theater that developed in Brazil in the first decades of the twentieth century. For this, we will use as a starting point the memories of members of GRUTAC, which in the early 1990s strove to create their own story through narratives about their own trajectory. In addition to these memories, we also used as sources for this work theatrical texts chosen by the group to be staged, because we observed that the GRUTAC appropriated the national theatrical production to show the morality and customs present in the society in which they were inserted. By analyzing the content of these plays we can know more about the history of Brazilian theater and dramaturgy. In the quest to understand social values of the cratenses during the study period, we will make the analysis of newspaper articles that talked about the group's performances and about the accepted and not accepted social behaviors within this society.