Grupo Galpão


The Galpão Group is one of the most important companies in the Brazilian theater scene, whose origin is linked to the tradition of popular and street theater. Created in 1982, the group develops a theater that combines rigor, research, language exploration, with the staging of plays that have a great power of communication with the audience.

Based in the city of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), it is one of the Brazilian groups that travels the most, not only within the country but also abroad, having traveled the Brazilian territory from north to south and participated in various festivals in countries in Latin America, North America, and Europe.

Comprised of 12 actors who work with different guest directors, such as Fernando Linares, Paulinho Polika, Eid Ribeiro, Gabriel Villela, Cacá Carvalho, Paulo José, Paulo de Moraes, Yara de Novaes, Jurij Alschitz, and Marcio Abreu, in addition to the group's own members—Eduardo Moreira, Chico Pelúcio, Júlio Maciel, Lydia Del Picchia, and Simone Ordones—who have also directed the group's productions, Galpão has forged its artistic language from these diverse encounters, creating a theater that engages with both the popular and the erudite, tradition and contemporaneity, street and stage theater, the universal and the Brazilian regional.

Without formulas and without defined methods, Galpão has always guided its practice by a group theater approach, which not only stages performances but also proposes a permanent reflection on the ethics of the actor and theater, inserted within a broad social and cultural universe.

  • Espetáculos

    26

  • Festivais Internacionais

    67

  • Países

    19

  • Festivais Nacionais

    +80

  • Apresentações

    +4000

  • Prêmios Brasileiros

    +100

  • Cidades

    +700

  • Espectadores

    +2.000.000

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Teuda Bara

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Lydia Del Picchia

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Paulo André

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Inês Peixoto

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Simone Ordones

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Eduardo Moreira

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Beto Franco

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Chico Pelúcio

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Júlio Maciel

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Arildo de Barros

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Antonio Edson

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Fernanda Vianna

Equipe

Fernando Lara
Gerente Executivo
Gilma Oliveira
Coordenadora de Produção
Wanilda D’Artagnan
Coordenadora Administrativa
Alba Martinez
Coordenadora de Planejamento
Letícia Leiva
Coordenadora de Comunicação
Rodrigo Marçal
Coordenador Técnico
Beatriz Radicchi
Produtora Executiva
Fábio Santos
Técnico de Som
William Bililiu
Técnico de Palco
Cláudio Augusto
Assistente Financeiro
Júlia Castro
Assistente de Planejamento
Fernanda Lara
Assistente de Comunicação
Caroline Martins
Assistente Administrativo
William Teles
Assistente Técnico
Danielle Rodrigues
Serviços Gerais
Polliane Eliziário – Personal Press
Assessoria de Imprensa
Rizoma Comunicação & Arte
Comunicação on-line
Wellington Dartagnan
Assessor Contábil
Artmanagers
Gestor Financeiro de Projetos

STORY

  • 1982

    FORMATION OF THE GROUP

    Teuda Bara, Eduardo Moreira, Wanda Fernandes and Antonio Edson met at the theatre workshops of the Germans Kurt Bildstein and George Froscher, from the Free Theatre of Munich.

  • 1982 - 1988

    THE HEROIC YEARS

    This was a period of intense work and few resources, the group was often vulnerable, but continued to perform and make a living from theatre.

  • 1989

    THE GROUP'S OWN HEADQUARTERS

    After returning from a long tour in Italy, where they met Grotowski and Peter Brook, the Group decided to create more solid and permanent structures, organizing archives and documents and establishing themselves in their own headquarters.

  • 1990 - 1996

    THE RECOGNITION

    The history of Grupo Galpão so far, as the actors themselves defined it, "was a slow process, of small steps, whose ripe fruits could only be harvested after a long process of sowing and watering."

  • 1996 - 1999

    THE EXPANSION

    After two years traveling across Brazil, Europe, and countries in Latin America with "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Street of Bitterness," Galpão decided to stage a new show that blended theater, circus, and music. They chose Molière due to its popular character as well as its relentless critique of contemporary society's hypocrisy.

  • 2000 - 2008

    THE CONSOLIDATION OF A HETEROGENEOUS AND MULTIPLE GROUP

    At the beginning of the century, Galpão started the year with an invitation to perform at the "Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre" in London. "Romeo and Juliet" would be the first Brazilian production on that stage for a two-week season.

  • 2009 - 2014

    THE SUCCESS OF A 30-YEAR EXPERIENCE

    After the failed attempt to stage Rugero Leoncavallo's opera "Il Pagliacci," directed by the Swiss Daniele Finzi Pasca, Galpão decided to create their own show with internal direction. Thus began a series of workshops, in which group members directed their fellow actors in scenes based on the texts chosen by the actors themselves.

  • 2014 - 2016

    RETHINKING PATHS

    After another large-scale play, like "The Giants of the Mountain," which gathered almost 50 thousand spectators in its six presentations in the squares of Belo Horizonte, Galpão began to rethink its paths. An alternative possibility was to occupy unconventional spaces, with a simple and gentle structure.

  • 2016 - 2020

    THE MULTIPLICITY OF PATHS THAT DIALOGUE

    The Galpão strengthens its partnership with director Marcio Abreu with the staging of the play "Others," an offshoot of "Us" in which the theme of otherness and encounter with the other engages with the political moment of the country and the world confronted with polarization and lack of dialogue, fruits of the crisis of democracy. With the consolidation of a performative language of contemporary theater, the group further amplifies and diversifies its heterogeneous language in which different genres and styles intersect and dialogue with the presentation of a repertoire of shows that circulates throughout the country.

  • 2020-2022

    EXPANDING BOUNDARIES TO SURVIVE THE PANDEMIC

    The onset of the pandemic demanded a quick change of course and the readjustment of the Group's projects. Surprised by the closure of theaters less than a month before the premiere of their new play - "Quer ver, escuta," an immersion in contemporary Brazilian poetry - the actors had to quickly rethink how they could continue practicing the craft of theater and maintain Galpão's activities in its nearly forty years of active and uninterrupted existence.

  • 2023-2024

    A RETURN TO ORIGINS

    Faithful to its purpose of always seeking new paths and challenges, the Galpão draws inspiration from the work of Bertolt Brecht to create the show "Courage Cabaret," directed by Júlio Maciel. In partnership with artists such as Ernani Maletta, Cida Moreira, Rafael Bacelar, the Group opens its headquarters for a series of scenic experiments, always inviting the audience, this intimate partner in all of its history, to celebrate and share each stage of construction of this assembly process. The show achieves enormous repercussion in seasons in Belo Horizonte, in Rio (at the Rival theater), and tours throughout the Northeast, Brasília, and São Paulo. "Courage Cabaret" is a kind of return to the Group's origins, with the presentation of sketches that highlight political criticism and theater as a celebration and encounter with the audience.