As Moças de Isabel Câmara: A Subversão ao Drama Tradicional

Abstract

This article is about As Moças, a play written by Isabel Câmara and staged in 1969, a particularly representative year in the history of contemporary Brazilian drama. It analyzes the subversion of the canonical forms of traditional drama proposed by the young playwright through the use of subjectivity, self-narration and autobiography. The author’s choice to work with themes such as passivity, impotence and melancholy led her to internalize the action, reducing it to a display of the inner frustrations of the two characters who come to represent a testimony of her personal trajectory and that of a whole generation. (ALVdeA, in Portuguese)