Sonoridades da cena: a expressão musical no teatro épico do Coletivo de Teatro Alfenim (PB)

Abstract

This work presents a study about the musical expression in the theater, trying to understand it by the dimensions of performance, the music and scene relationship, and the political-artistic principles of the epic theater created by the german playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). These thoughts on theater spectacle assume that the sound phenomenon integrates into the "scenic complex" as a music-theater performance that overflows to social issues within multiple interactions. The research is divided into four chapters and final considerations. The first part of the work concerns a bibliographical research, using studies in the areas of Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Anthropology and Theater. In order to interpret empirically the hypothesis that the phenomenon of the scene sonorities have multiple functions and interactions, an autoethnography was developed within the Alfenim Theater Collective (Coletivo de Teatro Alfenim, Paraíba, Brazil). This is a theater group from Paraíba that produces its own dramaturgies, including music, dialoguing with the principles of Brechtian poetry. This work develops a description and analysis about the music in their spectacle Memórias de um Cão (Memoirs of a dog, 2015). Doing so, the research leads to a vision of music within the context of the theater, perceiving it as performance, participating in multiple experiences, creating symbolic worlds on the scene for the audience, intervening in processes of political and sociocultural transformations.