Zé Celso
Brazilian stage actor, director and playwright (1937–2023)
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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]
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30 March 1937
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Celso in 2010 | |
| Born | José Celso Martinez Corrêa 30 March 1937 |
| Died | 6 July 2023 (aged 86) São Paulo, Brazil |
| Alma mater | Law School, University of São Paulo (dropped out) |
| Occupations | 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 |
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]
