Corinthians cultural director hails play on Timão’s origins | OneFootball

Premiering last Saturday (9), the theatrical production “The Founders – The Origin of the People’s Team” revisits 1910 and tells the origin of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista through a humanized, popular, and Brazilian perspective. In addition to narrating the creation of a football club, the play reveals the birth of the idea that sport could also be a space of belonging, identity, and a voice for the people.

In an exclusive interview with Central do Timão, Rafael Castilho, Corinthians’ Cultural Director, commented on the importance of the play about the birth of the club from Parque São Jorge.

Central do Timão

“The theater will be good for Corinthians, and Corinthians will be good for the theater, because many people who are now going to watch the play… for the first time, I’m seeing fans who don’t really have… don’t have access, or sometimes aren’t used to going to the theater, or because something hasn’t touched them yet. Because sometimes you have to be moved, right? For us to bring everything together, you need access, because when you have something that moves you… sometimes you start by reading about Coringão, then you go on to read about something else. It’s all about habit. Sometimes you try a dish—you have to taste it to know,” he began.

“And theater is like that, culture is like that. And in Brazil we still think culture is something kind of unattainable. So when a person goes to the theater… theater is something popular, it is popular culture. And it was also born from the people. So I think that, if a lot of fans are saying, ‘wow, Rafa, talking about theater,’ I think a lot of people are going to be enchanted,” he added.

The production

On stage, workers, immigrants, women from the community, and boys from the floodplain football fields build, amid conflicts, humor, and celebrations, a club born social, recreational, and above all collective. The production blends theater, popular rhythms, and choreography to bring to life a story that goes beyond sport. The drumming, the strength of the assemblies, the ideological clashes, and the support of the community show that Corinthians did not emerge merely as a team, but as a structured project of social transformation.

“The Founders – The Origin of the People’s Team” proposes a reunion with this origin not as distant memory, but as a living gesture — a movement that still echoes today in the stands, in the streets, and in Brazilian culture.

Information

Location: Teatro Corinthians Address: 777 São Jorge St. – Tatuapé, São Paulo – SP Run: Saturdays in May and June, starting 05/09 Time: 8:30 p.m. Duration: 80 minutes Age rating: All ages

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