Abstract

SERNA, Nancy Yohana Correa. Plays and Censorship in Medellin between 1850 and 1950. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.17, pp.18-47. ISSN 2145-132X.

The article analyzes the repertoire of the national and foreign troupes of opera, zarzuela and theatre, that visited Medellin city (Colombia) between 1850 and 1950. The repertoires were composed mostly by plays of foreigners writers, usually Spanish authors, and in some occasions plays by national playwriters. The local government formed a censor boards since 1909 to maintain a control on the content of represented plays, this censor was kept during the whole studied period. They were in charge of vetoing those theatre plays considered immoral or that attempted against the religious precepts of Medellin dwellers, who also, from their place as spectators approved or disapproved the staging through public demonstrations in the function, or by supporting or absence at the season programed by the troupes. The review of the press, of the main cultic magazines of the studied time, of some funds of the Historical Archives of Medellin and of the represented plays, allowed to reflect on the appropriation and circulation of the social representations stating, which only reproduced the practices and accepted experiences by the intellectuals and political elites of the city.

Keywords : theater; opera; zarzuela; theater plays; censorship; Medellin.

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