This thesis aims at the analysis of the theatrical cultural practices in Belém do Pará, state of Pará, Brazil, from 1941 to 1968, by considering amateur and student´s theatre ideologies and movement, whose fundamental project was the transformation of local theatre practices. The materials for this research were collected in private and public institutions archives and in Brazilian scholars´ bibiographical production. From these materials, we have investigated how performances (“poetic products”) have created a dialogue with the sociopolitical environment in Brazil and in Pará during those years. Artists and intelectuals aesthetic principles in this cultural movement revealed important modernizing and avant garde actions and perceptions on culture and art. On account of that the production proposed by the groups Teatro do Estudante do Pará (1941-1951), the Norte Teatro Escola do Pará (1957-1962) and the Serviço de Teatro at the University of Pará (1962-1967) have confronted others theatre forms – specially the ones related to commercial and popular theatre practices – that represented what we define as a tradition. In the final analysis we conclude that cultural production have been articulated and grounded under erudition principals proposed by those traditional groups during three decades in Pará´s 20th century theater. The government arts funding, formal art education and arts renewing potency, among other reasons, have motivated the “avant garde artists” to think and to make theatre as an important artistic and intelectual mobilization field in Para´s society.
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