Abstract

BOLLE, Willi. Living in a favela: scenic adaptation of a novel by Dalcídio Jurandir. LTP [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.63, pp.13-28. ISSN 2317-0972.  https://doi.org/10.2014/LTP-v32n63dez0002.

This is a description of a theater workshop realized in 2013/2014 with a group of teachers and students of a public high school in a favela in Belém (Amazonia). We performed a scenic adaptation of the novel Chão dos Lobos [Territory of Wolves] (1976), written by Dalcídio Jurandir (1909-1979), a pioneer in representing the favelas, where nowadays 54% of the inhabitants of that city live. We portrayed the environment of the favela in five pairs of scenes: 1) the interaction of the young protagonist with several inhabitants of the favela; 2) the issue of how to motivate a student to become a teacher; 3) the attempts of an exhausted elderly teacher to escape; 4) the theater of the people as a place of socialization; 5) the flight of the protagonist, his disillusion and returning to the favela. We conclude asking how this experience of a theater workshop could be continued by forms of anthropological and pedagogical fieldwork.

Keywords : Favela; Dalcídio Jurandir; Theater Workshop.

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