Shakespeare in the Favela

For two decades, the resourceful company Nós do Morro has been presenting professional theater in a hillside slum above Rio de Janeiro. “People from the rich areas of the city will now come here to go to the theater,” says the troupe’s founder. “They might never have ventured to a district like this before.” (Next month the company does Two Gentlemen of Verona at London’s Barbican.)