State of Exception

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle a university theater group revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution It is the history of the theater group university and through it the history of theater in Portugal revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal Through the Academy of Coimbra the documentary reproduces student life the position of women in society and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship the resistance to an exhausted regime as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies constituting a proper ball of a possible model generation by generation between studies theater and social drama