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State of Exception (2007)

State of Exception (2007)

History Documentary

The history behind the relationship of the Theater Initiation Circle of the Academy of Coimbra and the protests and resistance to the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal

Release Date: 2007, May 15
Directors: Ricardo Seiça Salgado
Countries: Portugal
Production: Círculo de Iniciação Teatral da Academia de Coimbra (CITAC), projeto BUH!, Terratreme
Cast: Helder Costa, Rui Damasceno, João Viegas, Feliciano David, Leandro Vale, António Lobo Fernandes, Eliana Gersão, Emílio Rui Vilar, Manuel Valente, Helena Seabra, António Lopes Dias, Celso Cruzeiro

Overview:

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

Keywords:

resistance university dictatorship art political instability art school political activism political documentary theater community academic theater street theater salazarism (1933-74) coimbra, portugal political street theater citac