State and theatrical funding: notes for a class perspective

Abstract

Briefly discussing some historical experiences of theatrical movements linked to the working class or to a popular perspective opposed to the ruling class and capitalist values, both internationally and in Brazil – retracing its genealogy from Antoine’s Théâtre Libre to the Arte contra a Barbárie movement of the theatre groups in São Paulo – the article aims to discuss that the state funding of such initiatives is necessarily exceptional and, due to the nature of the capitalist State itself, is unable to be sustained for long periods. Points out to the perspective of an organic binding to the working class organized movement as the solution for fostering such theatrical production.