DVD-Registro de Teatro

Resumo (EN)

This paper deals with the technical production systems of the Theater Registry DVD within the context of mass communication practices. lts object is the transposition of six theatrical performances to an audio-visual medium, the DVD, through a re-reading process. lt is an exploratory study that aims at achieving a greater familiarity with the Theater Registry-DVD, still a poorly known and limitedly researched alternative in Brazil. lt furthermore proposes to clarify concepts, unveil characteristics and allow for the discovery of links between certain variables, such as the changing of time and space that occurs in this transposition as well as to stress the difference between the tools available to a theater director, such as lighting, the actor's presence and the three-dimensional space and those a TR-DVD director can make use of, as edition, framing and computer-graphics. Another significant aspect considered in this paper is the link between the TR­OVO director and the play and whether this link is expressed in the final product. Besides the analysis of six DVDs of different authors, a survey of the literature on related aspects was conducted through interviews with four of the leading theater registry DVD directors in Brazil: Antônio Carlos Rebesco (Pipoca), Paulo Franco, Paulo de Moraes and Tadeu Jungle. The new technologies allow for the dissemination of a theater performance to other audiences having had no access to the original performance, being, as they were, in a different time/space. Moreover, the technically reproduced art work opens the possibility for new esthetic and originality concepts (BENJAMIN, W. 1994). When watching a theater performance through a TV set one gains access to a reflection about the enacted play that goes beyond the play itself. One can have different interpretations, different points of view and different approaches. The DVD allows for a different dissemination of the enacted play2 .and is a parallel tune, or a different reading of the theater play. The first chapter is an explanation about the universe of the Theater Registry­DVD , a hybrid product between the theater and the electronic media. This chapter shows how cinema and television started from the theatrical concepts and language and evolved towards their specificities. The second chapter deals with home media and, at the end makes some considerations about the transposition from one medium to the other: from the theater to the Theater Registry DVD. Transposition viewed as one of the forms of meta-linguistic re-reading, a very frequent issue in our days. This chapter also speaks of the importance and limitations of electronic memory, one of the attributes of the Registry-DVD. The third chapter relates the Theater Registry DVD to Bertold Brecht's theory of the epic theater, in which he stresses critical distancing. Registry DVD can be viewed as reflection on reality, with the Theater Registry-DVD director playing the role of narrator as described by the famous playwright and theorist. The theoretical background of the present paper is based on Communication as a multidisciplinary activity, in accordance to the thinking of some authors such as Anatai Rosenfeld, Bertold Brecht, Jesús Maria Barbero, Norval Baitello Jr., Walter Benjamin and W. Flusser. At the end, one is led to conclude that the Theater Registry-DVD, this media product available to the public, becomes the articulator of a new practice of communication between the theater and society at large.