IMAGENS DE CONTROLE EM CENA: UM OLHAR SOBRE A PRODUÇÃO DRAMATÚRGICA/CÊNICA DE AUTORIA DE MULHERES NO NORDESTE DO BRASIL (2015-2021)

IMAGES OF CONTROL ON STAGE: A LOOK AT THE DRAMATURGY/PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN OF BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST (2015-2021)

Abstract

This paper intents to make a critical review and an update of the research developed on the dramaturgy created by male playwriters in the Southeast region of Brazil between 2002-2012. Deflecting from that corpus, now we look at the initiatives of female artists in the dramaturgy/performance in the Northeast between 2015-2021, which we read from a feminist critical perspective, taking the idea of “controlling images”, by Patricia Hill Collins (2019), as our analysis-interpretation key. After the exposition of a brief panoramic view of their work, made from the consult of the main specialized critical websites, and considering the artists/collectives/works we already knew, we present our analysis-interpretation of the dramaturgy/performance of two plays: Isto não é uma mulata (2015), by Mônica Santana, and Violetas (2016), by Mayra Montenegro. Our hypothesis is that, in exposing and criticizing several control images associated to women, the work of these actresses-playwriters would be acting as a confront strategy against the oppressions those images synthetize.