PASSION REHEARSALS
AN ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT IN THE SANTANA SETTLEMENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33871/21750769.2025.21.2.11161Keywords:
Theater, Agrarian Reform, MSTAbstract
This article analyzes the creative work behind the performance "Ensaios da Paixão" (Passion Rehearsals), staged in the Santana Settlement, Ceará, and linked to the MST (Landless Workers' Movement). The production, a partnership between the theater group ASAS and Companhia do Latão, reworked the popular tradition of the Passion of Christ to discuss contemporary social issues such as inequality, gender, sexuality, and religiosity. The project’s research considered the history of the settlement and its trajectory marked by Liberation Theology, the Ecclesial Base Communities, and rural workers' struggles for dignity and rights. The creative process was characterized by pedagogical collaboration: online and in-person meetings promoted collective research, interviews, document studies, and stage experiments. The process was based on collective practice, mutual learning, and overcoming hierarchies. The premiere, in 2023, mobilized the community, treating the theme of the Passion as a metaphor for popular struggle and resistance to social and religious prejudices, and making use of the imaginative and politicizing potential of theatrical practice.
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