Communication and memory in texts from feminist theater collectives in Brazil: Boneca de pano (SC, 2014) and Entre Nós: buzinas, chicotes e ácidos (CE, 2017)

• Autor(a) principal: Heller, Barbara
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Garcia, Paula
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/127827
• topic: communication; mediatic culture; feminist theater collectives; amateur theater; social memory; comunicação; cultura midiática; coletivos de teatro feminista; teatro amador; memória social

Although feminist movements began more than a hundred years ago in Brazil, there are still few Brazilian groups that develop dramaturgy written by and for women, even considering amateur theater. We present in this article the analysis of two theatrical texts (or scripts), still unpublished: Boneca de pano, by the Santa Catarina theater collective (Em) Companhia de Mulheres, and Entre Nós: buzinas, chicotes e ácidos, by the Ceará collective Arremate de Teatro. We aim to understand, when comparing these two theatrical narratives, similarities and differences of the themes in question, considering their places of production, as well as their origins. We start from the hypothesis that theatrical narratives written by collectives that consider themselves feminists function as an authorized space for Brazilian women to speak, for the identification and rupture of behaviors inherited from the patriarchal culture. We confirm, based on the theoretical frame of theater, discourse analysis, cultural studies, gender studies and social memory, that the two texts under analysis present themselves as equally potent forms of catharsis, sensitization and resistance to the domestication and oppression to which women are still submitted.