O teatro do oprimido e seus efeitos : a polifonia de uma arte essencial

Abstract

This Ph.D. Thesis aims to analyze the relationship between art and society, from the study of the effects of the method created by Augusto Boal called Theater of the Oppressed, punctuating questions about theater and its relevance in our way of existing in society, As well as to know how this movement has been configured. Therefore, this thesis is based on the hypothesis that creation transcends the artist because it is not the expression of it, but of something that penetrates and surpasses it, that is, a conception of relational aesthetics that must represent an increasingly important part of society. As a general methodological guideline, we opted for field observation and recording. During the four years of research in this thesis, I became involved in the most diverse actions of the Theater of the Oppressed, describing the phenomena under each aspect of observed reality. Parallel to the observations in the field, we chose the method of collecting oral testimonies as a tool to apprehend the effects of the Theater of the Oppressed. Thus, we recorded and analyzed the speech of 16 interlocutors who were divided into two groups. The first one is made up of people who have some involvement with the Theater of the Oppressed and come from Brazil. The second, also has some involvement with the Theater of the Oppressed, but they come from other nationalities. In conclusion, the present thesis will be crossed by the notion of theater as an invitation to the construction of actions and knowledge. An invitation where the human who stages his oppressions in the Theater of the Oppressed is a collective and at the same time singular human, is a political, psychic, social and historical subject: he stages a time, an experience, a determined condition, a desire; Enacts their own representations of oppressive experiences and experiences them in group, a condition in which they potentially make sense, transform and are transformed