“Bacantes” (The Bacchae) at Teatro Oficina. Photo: Jenniffer Glass.

Teatro Oficina is the venue where the group works since 1961. It had several configurations, and it was partially damaged by a fire in 1966. But since 1993 it has its current configuration, designed by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. In 2015, Teatro Oficina was considered the best theater in the world by the British newspaper .
Bacantes (The Bacchae) at Teatro Oficina. Photo: Jenniffer Glass.
Dreamed up by the Italian-Brazilian architect , who was behind many of the country’s most famous buildings, Teatro Oficina is long, narrow and open-plan: “very much not the shape theatres are meant to be”, as the Observer’s architecture critic Rowan Moore one of the world’s best theatres, “but all the more intense for that”.
Teatro Oficina, to Celso, was an attempt to create something truly Brazilian: “I’ve stopped being colonised, and decolonised others,” he says.



















