The Living Theatre in Ouro Preto, arrest and exile: interview with Ilion Troya

Keywords: Living Theatre, Brazil, counterculture, dictatorship, Theatre

Abstract

José Carlos Temple Troya, known as Ilion Troya, member of the of the renowned North American avant-garde group Living Theater, is here interviewed. One of his passages to Ouro Preto, fifty years ago in 1971, is marked in his trajectory. At the invitation of the New York avant-garde group, Ilion went to live and act them in Brazil, intending to create and stage the innovative show “O Legado de Cain” (Cain’s Legacy) in Minas Gerais. This project that was dramatically interrupted by agents of the violent military dictatorship in force in the country. Then, the foreign actors were arrested and expelled from the country and Ilion went into exile. The interview was focused on such events.

Author Biography

Leon Kaminski, UEMG

Leon Kaminski é Professor da Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG). Doutor em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), bacharel e mestre em História pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), graduado em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). E-mail: kaminski.historia@gmail.com .

References

BECK, Julian. The life of the theatre. San Francisco: City Lights, 1972.

GRANÉS, Carlos. La invención del paraíso: el Living Theatre y el arte de la osadía. Madrid: Taurus, 2015.

MALINA, Judith. The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-1957. New York: Grove Press, 1984.

MALINA, Judith. Diário de Judith Malina. Belo Horizonte: Arquivo Público Mineiro, 2008.

Published
2021-10-31
How to Cite
KAMINSKI, L.; TROYA, I. The Living Theatre in Ouro Preto, arrest and exile: interview with Ilion Troya. Ephemera - Journal of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, v. 4, n. 8, p. 10-29, 31 Oct. 2021.