Black dramaturgies: or on writing color and body as text

Abstract

This study, based on PhD research, aims to analyze Black dramaturgies — a term used in the plural to designate the written and the performed text — as pulsating writings engaged in establishing other realities via the po[ethic] apprehension of Brazilian socio-racial processes; aesthetically reworking Black experiences; and revealing epistemologies of the scene that make Blackness visible in its difference, creativity, and relevance. Drawing on the dramaturgy of Grace Passô and Anderson Feliciano, we seek to reflect on how these artists inscribe color and body as text, producing language effects that, by a process of formal conception, encompass the contradictions of society and the theatrical experience, weaving multiple and fabular layers of the Black subject.