Teatro com e na velhice

Abstract

This thesis is woven into a close relationship with old actresses and actors to accompany the processes and subjectivations of the subjects participating in each scene and workshop, revealing theatre and its with and in old age. With this field of analysis and interventions, that links old age and theatre, four axes were considered during the writing of the thesis thesis: theatre, old age, workshops and self-care. There are scenes set up at the interface with direct experience with the intercessors, namely: Cora Coral Coralina, in 2015; remote meetings with the Maturiarte group, 2022; rehearsals and rehearsals and staging of the play Confusion in the Convent of Flowers, 2023; and Oficinas Inventivas de Teatro com e na Velhice – OFITV – and Coro e Cena, in 2024. By accompanying the scenes, brought between signs, the research investigates the relationship between theatre, old age and their bodies. To this end, the method of cartography, from the perspective of the perspective of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, worked as a device to accompany the movements and can activate the field of forces of the work between theatre and old age. The text of the thesis is stitched together by means of markings from the theatre itself and also from a field diary produced during direct encounters with rehearsals and experiences between old age and theatre. There are authors and theatre-makers who have helped to weave this research, such as Augusto Boal, Constantin Stanislavski, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Virgínia Kastrup, Rosimeri Dias, Simone Beauvoir, Silvana Tótora, Cora Coralina, Conceição Evaristo, Manoel de Barros, among others. Connecting theatre and old age with their bodies to expand existences: this was the expansive dimension of life and the transformation of self and worlds with theatre, as a bet on a movement being built, in transit, displacing and deterritorialising ways of thinking and living, forging processes of subjectivation.