Teatro e cárcere: a dimensão pública da obra da CiA dXs TeRrOrIsTaS

Abstract

This research proposes to analyze the “public dimension” (Cornago, 2019, p. 12) of two projects developed by the CiA dXs TeRrOrIsTaS: TRANSgressoras ou como recuperar o fôlego gritando (2020-2021) and Fractos Corpografados: Vicissitudes de uma teatralidade abolicionista fractal (2022-2023), developed with trans and transvestites women and who are "survivors of prison", term used as a symbol of the fight for social justice, adopted by the company to refer to people coming out the prison system. To this end, it proposes a case study of artistic manifestations - the podcast, the book of poems and stories, the theatrical show, dramaturgy and performance - produced in two projects, through a diversity of approaches in relation to a same phenomenon: the weaknesses of the Brazilian prison system and the penal abolitionist struggle. The artistic works will be analyzed based on the notion of public experience, by Oscar Cornago and the concepts of liminal spaces and testimonial theatricality, by Ileana Diéguez. In addition to artistic analysis, the phenomenon will also be investigated based on references that contribute to a critical analysis of incarceration policies, based on the current of criminal abolitionist thought endorsed by Angela Davis and the notion of precariousness addressed by American philosopher Judith Butler. The study showed that the Company appropriates theatricality as a device that allows it to go beyond the limits of the theatrical and artistic (Diéguez, 2014 apud Fernandes, 2019) in the production of works in the most diverse communication languages, through which TeRrOrIsTaS develop their political potential in the construction of an abolitionist poetics.