Centro de Estudos de Teatro (Centre for Theatre Studies)

The Centre for Theatre Studies was set up in November 1994. It is a research unit financially supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal (a branch of the Ministry for Science and Technology) and is located at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
It engages 25 researchers and its scientific director is presently Maria João Almeida.
One of its more important assets is a very good collection of books and journals (Arquivo Osório Mateus) that has recently been donated to the main library of the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon: some books are scanned and can be read online (there is a special link on our website: OM).
Besides developing three main lines of research - Theatre Edition, Iconography and Theatre History in Portugal -, the Centre is co-editor of a theatre journal Sinais de cena, has edited both a CD-Rom edition (of Portuguese plays of the sixteenth century) and several books (texts, essays, proceedings of international conferences it has organized) and is responsible for a graduate course on Theatre Studies at the Faculty (2nd and 3rd cycles after Bologne Agreement).
Website: http://www.fl.ul.pt/centros_invst/teatro/pagina/centro-estudos-teatro.htm

Address:
Centro de Estudos de Teatro
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 LISBOA (Portugal)
Telephone / Fax: + 351 217 920 086
Email: estudos.teatro@fl.ul.pt

Programmes being carried out at the Centre
 
TOPO
Organization of graduate courses on Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Letters
Promotion of interactions with national and international units for colloquia, conferences, symposia and other forms of joint events
Organisation of seminars for secondary school teachers
Training young researchers and students
Participation in professional theatre productions
Scientific aid to cultural institutions
 
MEMORIA
Data bank on theatre in Portugal (various kinds of documents from the twelfth to the twenty first century that will be available online) and the organisation of a dictionary on theatre in Portugal.
 
OPSIS
Image data bank on theatre in Portugal
 
THEASAURUS
Edition of plays from the fifteenth to the fifties of the twenty first century, re-reading the first editions or preparing manuscripts for their first edition
 
 
BASE
Developing a data base online (CETbase) listing all the productions presented in Portugal, both national and international. It covers mainly the twentieth and twentieth first century, but it already goes as far back as the 19th and even the 18th century. It is daily fed by young researchers and much of the information collected comes from Master and PhD research work.