THE AMATEUR THEATER IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:

BETWEEN CAPITAL AND THE INSIDE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze, through the approach of Cultural History, amateur theater cratense during the first decades of the twentieth century. In this period, an amateur theater was developed in the main Brazilian capitals, characterized by groups that created their shows to be presented to the various social strata and who escaped from the commercial logic of a professional theater, as was the case in Rio de Janeiro. In the city of Crato, interior of Ceará, an amateur theater group was formed in 1942, formed by adolescents who received the guidance of an intellectual elite formed by doctors, lawyers, politicians, and local merchants. We believe that through the analysis of the performance of this group, we will be able to perceive the values of the people living in the Crato of the studied period, as well as the function performed within the society in which it was inserted. We used as a methodology for this work the bibliographical research, and the analysis of varied types of sources, among them, memories, programs of plays, period newspapers and magazines.