Arapu��'s Nest

The book consists of twelve articles divided into three sections. The first is dedicated to the studies I began as a student at the School of Dramatic Arts in 1993 as an actor. From this experience and reflection come these texts. The themes are about tragedy in ancient Greece culminating in a study of Aeschylus'' trilogy (Agamemnon Coephorae and the Eumenes). In addition to this theme I approach the national theater and especially our greatest playwright Nelson Rodrigues. To do so I try to understand his controversial relationship with the critics of his time and how he came to inaugurate modernism in Brazilian dramaturgy. Still on the scenic arts I selected an article that portrays the adaptation of literary classics for cinema and theater that is it deals with the transposition from one artistic language to another. In this case I focus on the staging that José Celso Martinez did of Euclides da Cunha''s Sertões (Backlands).