This work deals with theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, and looks especially at its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals?; and did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre?

This work deals with theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, and looks especially at its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals?; and did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre?