Alice através do armazém: tradução intersemiótica, paródia e antropofagia no teatro contemporâneo

Abstract

The present thesis draws a parallel between the staging of Alice através do espelho (Alice through the looking glass, translated literally), performed by the Armazém Companhia de Teatro (Armazém Theatre Company) for the first time in 1999, and studies concerning the relationship between text and theatre, as well as concepts related to appropriation and recreation in the contemporary context. Therefore, gathers significant moments when the role of the text in theatre was questioned in order to, thereafter, reflect upon the way this theatre company has undertaken an appropriation of the stories of Lewis Carroll, among other texts, with the purpose of materializing its own Alice. In order to study the role of the text in the theatre, the main references taken were the works of Jean-Jacques Roubine, César Oliva and Francisco Torres Monreal, Hans-Thies Lehmann, and Renato Cohen. To address issues related to appropriation and recreation, three main concepts have been tackled: intersemiotic translation, as approached by Julio Plaza, after the thoughts of authors such as Roman Jakobson and Walter Benjamin; parody, as it is seen by Linda Hutcheon; and anthropophagy, expanded from Oswald de Andrade‟s concept by intellectuals such as Roberto Corrêa dos Santos, Pierre Lévy, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze.