Narrativas em cena e os processos de criação de João Brites em adaptações de romances para os palcos do Teatro O Bando

Abstract

In this essay, we highlight some aspects of the processes and procedures of scenic creation by João Brites and Teatro O Bando in adapting literary novels for the stage, examining his particular interest in working with novels and other literary forms not originally written for the stage: Gente Feliz com Lágrimas by João de Melo in 2002, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira by José Saramago in 2004 and Jerusalém by Gonçalo M. Tavares in 2008. This research was carried out during a six-month stay in Lisbon for literary, documental and field research with João Brites and his collective, identifying the stages of the processes and procedures used for the creation of those performances. The final analysis of empirical objects came from reading and studying the novels, comparing them to the dramaturgy and, consequently, to video recordings: an incursion into the field of performance genetics, which provides a methodological support for this research.