The drama of the elderly: learning to tell stories through the play

Authors

  • Paulo Ricardo Berton Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Rafael Luiz Marques Ary Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-0221.2022.e85640

Keywords:

Dramatic Text, Dramatic Writing, Third Age, Storytelling

Abstract

Playwriting, one of the written narrative forms of telling a story, in addition to being practically unknown to the general public in Brazil, has had a paltry presence in the Academy. Aware of all the difficulties and particularities that involve the teaching of Dramatic Literature and the practice of its writing, NEEDRAM (Research Centre in Theater Staging and Dramatic Writing), active in defending the importance and relevance of Drama in the contemporary theatrical scene, created curricular emphases of Playwriting at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), and in 2021, it expanded its field of activity, proposing to Seniors Study Centre (NETI) a workshop for the production of plays, so that its students could learn to tell stories, their own and those of others, in this literary format, and whose reception and results, some surprising, will be addressed in this article.

Author Biographies

Paulo Ricardo Berton, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutorado em Theatre pela University of Colorado, Estados Unidos (2010). Professor Associado da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Rafael Luiz Marques Ary, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutorado em Artes da Cena pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2015). Professor do Departamento de Artes da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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Published

2022-05-27