Portugal, the 1960s: Teatro Moderno de Lisboa, between protest and censorship

Abstract

This text addresses what resistance and political-cultural protest meant to Grupo Teatro Moderno de Lisboa (TML), from Lisbon, Portugal, in the 1960s, based on the interviews and discourses about their collective creation processes, theoretical research and social intervention. While protest against the Estado Novo dictatorship became stronger and regular in this period, the political and aesthetic issues in the plays continued to face suffocating repression by official censorship, always vigilant of heterodox artistic manifestations, as in the case of independent theatre groups.