Caça e caçador: o ator-contador e as histórias de onça do interior da Paraíba

Abstract

This research's goal is to unite traditional narratives from hunters with the rich narrative universe taking as inspiratoin the relations between men and beasts, as well as the political, social and cultural meaning of the stories that permeates such relationships. The field research was made in the city of São José do Espinharas/PB, a place that was referred by the cordel storyteller João Melquíades de Ataíde, in his booklet "Histórias de Cazuza Sátiro, o matador de onça". In this field study testimonies were registred from people who knew these hunt stories. The second stage was a research in the direction of the construction of a narrative, in which practical experiments were carried out that confronted and concatenated with the main theories raised by Dario Fo, Gilbert Durand, Walter Benjamin and Peter Brook. The third and last part consisted on a scenic creation of Suçuarana experiment, result of the experimentation process from myself as an actor and storyteller, using as groundwork the material collected in field research and found cordel. At the end of the process the research consolidates a unique experience of scenic composition through contact with hunters narrative which were incorporated to the theatrical text and enactment.