Open AccessCésar Falcón and the Theatre Company Nosotros
Author(s) -
M. Carmen Domínguez Gutiérrez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
rassegna iberistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2037-6588
pISSN - 0392-4777
DOI - 10.30687/ri/2037-6588/2020/114/001
Subject(s) - proletariat , marxist philosophy , avant garde , perspective (graphical) , politics , political theatre , theatre director , art , literature , art history , visual arts , political science , law
In the theatre scene of the 1930s in Spain, in addition to the traditional commercial theatre and the republican avant-garde of Las Misiones Pedagógicas or La Barraca, an alternative proposal emerged whose objectives went beyond the pedagogical and the artistic. Proletarian, or political theatre, linked to European theatrical avant-garde with Soviet roots, was inspired by the principles of Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. They proposed, from a Marxist perspective, class struggle as means to achieve an alternative socialist model. The theatre company Nosotros, directed by Peruvian exile César Falcón, is the best example of this theatrical avant-garde.