(MA)TERNA: A teatralidade da perda

Abstract

How can we transform the pain of loss into a creative process? How can artistic creation in theater collaborate in the processes of overcoming loss and pain? What theatricality emerges in the construction of a path of survival for a mother who lost her son? This work aims to analyze a theatrical scene and its process of artistic construction, created during the Degree Course in Theater (2018-2024), motivated by the crisis of the loss of a son, by its author. “Ma(terna)” is the result of using the scene as a strategy of self-affirmation to overcome pain, a possibility of constructing a public dialogue in which the maternal condition is presented from a dramatic perspective, which makes it possible to confront the tragic with theater and as theater. To this end, we used the conceptual bases of theatricality (Fernandes, 2021) and the processes of experience as research in the scenic area (Telles, 2020), in a field of reflection on creative processes.