Dramaturgy in São Paulo in the 1960s was marked by a close articulation of culture and politics and by changes in the social composition of the stage. The article examines how playwrights Leilah Assumpção and Consuelo de Castro addressed the bewildering experiences of their female protagonists and the obstacles they faced - material, professional, sexual, ethical - and, instead of isolating their characters in the narrow frame of the so called "women's condition", how they sought to stage, in plays such as Fala baixo senão eu grito and À flor da pele, gender relations.
Theatre in São Paulo,1960s; Gender relations; Leilah assumpção; Consuelo de Castro