Teatro Oficina
Fire-gutted theater rebuilt as a fifty-meter indoor street, with steel galleries pressed close along a narrow central stage.
This guide to Teatro Oficina in São Paulo opens at dawn on May 31st 1966, with director Zé Celso walking through the smoking ruin of the theater he had founded eight years earlier and deciding to rebuild it not as a theater but as a street. It follows how that idea, raised through benefit shows across the city, finally took shape decades later with architect Lina Bo Bardi's fifty-meter footbridge and steel galleries running past the audience. Along that narrow wooden footbridge, plays like a wild, hours-long staging of The Bacchae and an epic telling of Os Sertões unfolded across whole seasons. Sit close to the bridge and you are standing in the path the actors walk.
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