ELA, PROTAGONISTA: uma análise dos discursos femininos no teatro brasileiro contemporâneo

Resumo (EN)

It is known that gender inequality is a long lasting discussion that, unfortunately,
remains in our country until nowadays. As our culture is inherited from patriarchal
relationships, it is important to ask: how does the production of feminist theater
collectives contribute to the communicational process of combating gender inequalities
in Brazil? In this study, the dramatic text is considered as an artistic manifestation
capable of interacting and disturbing audiences that attend varied venues,
neighborhood theaters or outdoor stages. This project aims to analyze the narratives
of amateur theatrical text written by feminist collectives to understand how they express
themselves, which voices appear to show their pains and anxieties. The corpus
consists of five texts, one from each geographic region of Brazil: “Arremate de Teatro”
(Northeast region), “(Em) Companhia de Mulheres” (South region), “Frente Feminina”
(Central-West region), “Mulheres Marajoaras em Cena” (North region) and artistic
network “M.O.T.I.M - Mulheres Organizadas por um Teatro em Infinito Movimento”
(Southeast region). Starting from the hypothesis that these texts, written by women,
for all kind of audiences, constitute a space of speech and identification, we confirm,
based on theoretical studies about theater, speech analysis and feminist movement,
that the studied texts are strong forms of catharsis, sensitization and resistance to the
domestication and to the oppression that women are still being submitted.