This paper brings an analysis on the prior censorship process of the theater play O Poço (The Well, 1950), by Helena Silveira, whose documents are filed in the Miroel Silveira Archives of ECA-USP. Through this analysis, we introduce a methodology of work developed in the study of those documents. It envolves a multidisciplinary approach named, by some authors, Ethnography of Archives, with activies of information mamangement, bibliographic research, content analysis and historical interpretation. With this study that crosses real and symbolic, it is possible to understand the meaning of archives, censorship and of reality as source symbolic representation.
Censhorship; Theater; Archives; Ethnography of archives; Communication