Sixty years of Brazilian theater so wild it made Tropicalismo look tame.
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Production
Lina Bo Bardi's theater space as living, breathing character.
Direction
Weglinski and Castro let chaos breathe without drowning in it.
Costume
Six decades of costumes that scandalized military dictators.
Director
Lucas Weglinski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Teatro Oficina's 1968 production of 'O Rei da Vela' was performed in the streets after their theater was padlocked, essentially inventing Brazilian site-specific protest theater.
José Celso still lives in the theater building and continues directing; the 'machine' of the title refers to both the collective creative process and the literal wooden apparatus Lina Bo Bardi designed to transform the performance space.
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