Fortunately there's Luar!

Denouncing the injustice of the repression and political persecutions carried out by the Estado Novo, the play Felizmente Há Luar!, published in 1961, the same year as Angústia para o Jantar, was banned by censorship for many years. It was only in 1978 that it was first staged at the National Theatre, directed by Sttau Monteiro himself. I am a man of concrete, real, stage theatre. For me, theatre emerges when it is on stage, when it establishes a social, concrete relationship, within a people and a group. The book merely, or the text, has very little meaning for me, even though I am a playwright. (...) If you are the theatre of the future, I am of the past. I am a man for whom only the spectacle matters. These are words spoken by Sttau Monteiro and published in Le théatre sous la contrainte, Proceedings of the International Colloquium held in Aix-en-Provence, on December 4 and 5, 1985, published by the University of Provence, in 1988. It is with this quote that Professor José Oliveira Barata, author of Para Compreender Felizmente Há Luar!, a study also published by Areal Editores, illustrates the fact that the dramatic text constitutes only a first step to foster, in those who teach and those who learn, a taste for Theatre, understood as a socially shared cultural expression.