Zé Celso
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Born | José Celso Martinez Corrêa 30 March 1937 |
Died | 6 July 2023 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 86)
Alma mater | Law School, University of São Paulo (dropped out) |
Occupation | Stage actor, director and playwright |
Years active | 1958–2023 |
Notable work | The Bacchae, Os Sertões, O Rei da Vela, Roda Viva |
Movement | Anthropophagism |
Spouse | Marcelo Drummond (m. 2023) |
Website | teatroficina |
José Celso Martinez Corrêa (30 March 1937 – 6 July 2023), known as Zé Celso, was a Brazilian stage actor, director and playwright.[1] He was one of the founders of Teatro Oficina, an innovative and politically active theater company associated with the 1960s Tropicalismo movement.[2]
Zé Celso became notable in the scene with his adaptation of Oswald de Andrade's play O Rei da Vela (The Candle King), in 1967.[3] He also co-wrote with Chico Buarque the 1968 play Roda Viva, which was targeted as pornographic and was censored during the military dictatorship.[4] One of his final plays was Os Sertões, a trilogy adapting the book by Euclides da Cunha.[5]
Personal life and death
Zé Celso was in a 40-year relationship with actor Marcelo Drummond. The couple married in June 2023, with a ceremony at Teatro Oficina.[6]
Zé Celso died in São Paulo on 6 July 2023, at the age of 86. He was hospitalized at Hospital das Clínicas, after a fire broke out in his apartment in the Paraíso neighborhood. Zé Celso was 53% burned and was under mechanical ventilation; his husband Marcelo, two visitors, and the couple's dog, who were also in the apartment, did not sustain burns, but were under observation at the hospital.[7]
References
- ^ George, David (2011-03-30). The Modern Brazilian Stage. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292729766.
- ^ Dunn, Christopher (2014-01-01). Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469615707.
- ^ Rubin, Don; Solorzano, Carlos (2013-10-08). World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Americas. Routledge. ISBN 9781136359286.
- ^ "GaúchaZH". gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). 26 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-09-25.
- ^ "'Os Sertões', do Teatro Oficina, faz mini turnê pelo Brasil". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2017-09-25.
- ^ "Aos 86 anos, diretor Zé Celso se casa com Marcelo Drummond em festa no Teatro Oficina". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
- ^ "Zé Celso Martinez morre aos 86 anos em São Paulo". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-07-06. Retrieved 2023-07-06.
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