José Maria Santos: entrevistas e embates

Abstract

This book intends to give access to the voice of José Maria Santos (1933-1990), one of the most important personalities of the Paraná professional theater, who also designed the name of the Escola Técnica Federal do Paraná for almost 20 years as director of the theater group of this institution . Throughout her life, Zé Maria granted dozens of interviews to different periodicals. Through these materials, we can perceive aspects of his personality and his professional and artistic thinking. The selection of interviews presented here runs through the period of the last 20 years of his career, from 1970 to 1989. A reading of these interviews allows us to perceive the thinking and to know the artistic life of Santos on diverse topics as: decentralization of artistic production; Cultural public policies; Censorship and political openness and economic changes in Brazil; Theater teaching; Experimental and avant-garde theater; Drama, television and cinema; Professional ethics and the role of the artist in society; The economic value of art. These interviews recount, from the perspective of José Maria Santos, the cultural history of Brazil in a perspective from Paraná.