La politización del festival de teatro durante el tardofranquismo
For the young authors that were marginalised from the commercial stage, theatre festivals appeared to be a preferred way to reach the stage during the second half of the 1960s. They saw in this cultural event an opportunity to get around censorship, that banned most of their politically and socially...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/8520 |
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| Summary: | For the young authors that were marginalised from the commercial stage, theatre festivals appeared to be a preferred way to reach the stage during the second half of the 1960s. They saw in this cultural event an opportunity to get around censorship, that banned most of their politically and socially engaged plays. The relative permissiveness first allowed by censorship in festivals was used to spread a sharp theatre against Francoism. In a few years’ time, festivals, yet endorsed by the government, turned out to be a channel for protest and for political theatre performance. As social conflicts aggravated around 1970, the Administration, which progressively realised this situation, started to forbid with more severity some performances, always taking the place, the impact of the event, the kind of audience and its degree of dangerousness into consideration. However, the banning of plays did not prevent protest; on the contrary, it radicalised the opposition in a situation of serious civil disorder that was announcing the agony of a decadent political system. |
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| ISSN: | 1957-7761 |