Atuações e desafios dos atores do Teatro da Laje: "Posso falar?"

Abstract

In an extremely unequal country like Brazil, where class oppression, racism and chauvinism are structural, is really hard to combine arguments fundamental of human rights and possibility of emancipation and visibility, bearing in mind the refusal to looking for a unit and systematic perspective regarding this right might be. In this context, the 'Theater of Laje' was born in Vila Cruzeiro, territory of periphery in the city of Rio de Janeiro, by initiative of an arts actor and teacher belong to municipal networking, in 2003, using the slabs of community residents as stage for dramaturgy staged. The objective of this work is to think about the impact of developed practices in theater regard to agency, options and practices presented by young people who stay in the theater in everyday life. Its affect the issues regarding visibility and subalternity of participants actors? To think about so many voices in 'Theater of Laje' by a group way which has already won prizes as "Cultura Viva", in an environment where violence is naturalized and where silences are not questioned, the writings of Gramsci on groups at the margin of history and the popular in culture remain as a challenge, more present than ever.