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For a New Political Theatre
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The first words of Caranguejo Overdrive, spoken by ‘a crab who one day had been a man named Cosme’, encapsulate the fundamental principles guiding the work's creation. Based on an unorthodox ingesting of Josué de Castro – the geographer who proved that hunger is not the fruit of any natural disaster, but rather of an unjust social organization – Glauber Rocha, the filmmaker who made hunger not his theme, but the very engine of his aesthetic – and Chico Science, the musician who revived the Baudelairean image of the ‘rag-picker poet’, Oswaldian anthropophagy, and tropicalism – the contemporary figure of the ‘man-crab’ emerges.
Title: For a New Political Theatre
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The first words of Caranguejo Overdrive, spoken by ‘a crab who one day had been a man named Cosme’, encapsulate the fundamental principles guiding the work's creation.
Based on an unorthodox ingesting of Josué de Castro – the geographer who proved that hunger is not the fruit of any natural disaster, but rather of an unjust social organization – Glauber Rocha, the filmmaker who made hunger not his theme, but the very engine of his aesthetic – and Chico Science, the musician who revived the Baudelairean image of the ‘rag-picker poet’, Oswaldian anthropophagy, and tropicalism – the contemporary figure of the ‘man-crab’ emerges.
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