TEATRO ALBERTO MARANHÃO (TAM): reflections based on the memory-history of its documentary collection
Alberto Maranhão Theater; Documentary sources; Theater collection; History of Brazilian Theater; History of the Theater of Rio Grande do Norte.
This dissertation deals with the documentary collection of the Teatro Alberto Maranhão (TAM), a building opened in 1904, in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Seeking to measure the relevance of this documentary mass for the memory and history of Brazilian theater, this study presents the notion of sources, documents and theatrical collections, contextualizing the initial years of the Teatro Alberto Maranhão and the constitution of its documentary collection. Next, documents from this collection relating to the period between 1926-1937 are specifically analyzed. For this, the works of Carrijo (2020), Azevedo (2021) and Fontana (2021) are used as theoretical and methodological references. Finally, the Potiguar theater is located in the panorama of Brazilian theater during the 1920s and 1930s, addressing the political, economic, social and cultural situation in which the scenic productions presented at TAM were inserted, mentioning theatrical genres and dynamics of circulation of professional and amateur groups of the time, establishing connections with the theatrical scene observed in other Northeastern States (Silva, 2014), (Ferraz, 2018) and (Faria, 2020). With the aim of providing subsidies for new research on the History of Brazilian Theater, this work contributed especially by investigating the History of Theater in Rio Grande do Norte.