Arapuá's Nest

The book consists of twelve articles divided into three sections. The first is dedicated to the studies I began as a student at the School of Dramatic Arts in 1993, as an actor. From this experience and reflection come these texts. The themes are about tragedy in ancient Greece, culminating in a study of Aeschylus' trilogy (Agamemnon, Coephorae and the Eumenes). In addition to this theme, I approach the national theater and especially our greatest playwright, Nelson Rodrigues. To do so, I try to understand his controversial relationship with the critics of his time and how he came to inaugurate modernism in Brazilian dramaturgy. Still on the scenic arts, I selected an article that portrays the adaptation of literary classics for cinema and theater, that is, it deals with the transposition from one artistic language to another. In this case I focus on the staging that José Celso Martinez did of Euclides da Cunha's Sertões (Backlands).