Considerations about violence in the theatrical scene

Abstract

The article examines some aspects of representation/presentification, based on the theoretical approach by Erika Fischer-Lichte, about the tensions between reality and fiction in the contemporary scene, the idea of expanded theater proposed by Ileana Dieguez, and the reflection on the theatricality and the spectacle by Helga Finter. These aspects guide the view of two examples in the work of the Coletivo Bruto: the staging of O que está aqui é o que sobrou [What’s here is what’s left], a work created by the collective from Brecht and Muller’s Material Fatzer, and the staging of Shame, authored by the collective, to reflect on the representation of violence in scene.