Carnival TheaterOffers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguays carnival theater troupes The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideos Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguays capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguays subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of democratization, the murgas, envisioned