This paper discusses, from the relation between history and drama, the place of the São Paulo-born dramatist Jorge Andrade (1922 - 1984) at the heart of the Brazilian theatre. To do so one takes as starting point the play A Moratória, written in 1954, which is considered one of the author's main works and presents some features of the coffee elite decadence round 1930. This play was written and performed in the 50's and it came to be an important record on the need of standing for the Brazilian man in that time.
drama; Jorge Andrade; nationalism