Acendam as luzes ,O Mambembe voltou! De Artur Azevedo ao Teatro dos Sete, redenção e idealismo na invenção póstuma da belle époque teatral

Abstract

The study of theatrical text O Mambembe, viewed from the contexts in which it was first created, at 1904, and then rehabilitated, for public and critique, 55 years later. The reception sight detaches this play from Artur Azevedo s other work, allowing a glimpse - mostly considering theatre for him as educator of the senses - of the text contradictions to the world of theatrical entertainment at the beginning of XX century in Rio de Janeiro, its attempt to in some way escape from the massification of this world, by appealing to the past, and to a promess of a more artistic future for the theatre. The first part discusses the inaugural ideas for the theatre as education in modernity, and how these ideas were catalyzed in Brazil around a theatre that civilizes by soul s education, until Artur Azevedo s time. After exploring some historic aspects of O Mambembe epoch, there is a small panel and some theoretical considerations about the comedy-musical theatre structure and industry in the beginning of XX century. In the second part of this work, linked to theoretical enquiring into theatre reception, notions of each of the two epochs are discussed through dailies and magazine s news and chronicles. After a small exposition about ideological and cultural changes in society during the 55 years between one perform and the other, the work ends with a proposition of a metaphorology of the play, taken from collected informations and experimental results