Expanded scene: boia-fria sugarcane cutters and theater of cruelty.

• Autor(a) principal: Dawsey, John C.
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arte da Cena
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufg.br/artce/article/view/34766
• topic: 1) expanded scene; 2) theater of cruelty; 3) boia-fria sugarcane cutters; 4) extraordinary or astounding everyday life; 5) f(r)iction; 6) experience; cena expandida; teatro da crueldade; boias-frias; extraordinário ou espantoso cotidiano; f(r)icção; experiência.

Stage arts which take place in the extraordinary everyday life of boias-frias on the backs of trucks shed light on processes of both dilution and expansion of the scene. Here one encounters a theater of cruelty. Expanded scene. Boias-frias on stage. Life and theater make contact. In this essay, three characters are presented, each of which come to life in sugarcane fields and on the backs of trucks, on the stages of the everyday theater of boias-frias: 1) ghosts and shadows; 2) passengers on ships of folly on the green seas of sugarcane fields; and 3) agonizing and playful cattle. At the end of the essay four questions are presented in regard to the notion of an expanded scene: 1) the theater of extraordinary or astounding everyday life; 2) the ludic and agonizing experience of becoming a commodity; 3) the bodily expression of becoming bagasse; and 4) the image of the past which makes contact as a flash of lighting.