On March 24th 2022 we will have passed one more day in freedom than the years we lived under a dictatorship, between the military coup of May 28th 1926 and the April 25th 1974 revolution. Such symbolic day is the trigger for a special program which, being celebrated, commits with the memory and seeks to understand the different way a story can be told. Between 1955 and 1974, the São Luiz has lived wall-to-wall with the PIDE (Secret Service) headquarters, and it was at the theater’s street where the only victims of the revolution’s day have died.
Movies have premiered, shows have been censored, artists have been celebrated, the country, the government and the city have showed off and allowed themselves being seen, as many as those who managed and were able to continue to do what they knew: to write, interpret, stage, sing, quote and resist. Throughout these two weeks, Teatro São Luiz lives the times of memory and history, celebrating, in its spaces and online, 48 moments that marked affirmation occasions and resistance to the regime. It’s also time to address some questions which we understand to be relevant to debate in the country that was born from the revolution and that projects itself to a future where democracy must not be taken for granted.
