Edição genética e estudo do processo de criação de História da Paixão do Senhor de João Augusto.

Abstract

Regarding the Bahian theater produced in the 1960s, the theatrical work of the actor and playwright João Augusto Azevedo stands out, through the action of the group A Sociedade Teatro dos Novo", whose first expressive output took place in 1961 with the text História da Paixão do Senhor (History of Lord's Passion) in the neighborhoods of Salvador and some towns in Bahia's countryside. The text comes from the adaptation and compilation of two medieval texts, Mistério da Paixão by Arnould Gréban and O pranto da Madona by Jacopone da Todi, and the modern text A Via Sacra by Paul Claudel, which have been translated by Estela Froés. The study proposed here seeks to highlight the process of creating HLP carried out by João Augusto. To this end a manuscript (1961) was selected, which, due to its drafting circumstance, has erasures in its materialness, in order to make genetic readings on the text and the writing project of João Augusto through a genetic editing. This study brought up one more facet of the playwright João Augusto, contributing with information about the beginning of his career in Bahia and corroborating with his status of importance in the history of popular theater therein.