A Morte e a Donzela, de Rogério de Carvalho: crítica genética, arquivo das artes performativas e a prática como pesquisa

Abstract

Alexandre Pieroni Calado is engaged in a cross disciplinary project that, in the manner of a fictional historiography, attempts to recreate a play that the director, Rogério de Carvalho, never made with the texts from Princess Dramas: Death and the Maiden by Elfriede Jelinek. It is a project in which research is a vital component and that, as this text aims to demonstrate, can be set within the field of performance genetics. This essay will show prospectively that Calado’s creative process has significant common aspects when compared with de Carvalho’s poetic practice, in particular when considering working procedures with actors. Finally, we shall argue that there are relevant connections between genetic criticism/performance genetics, the theme of the archive in the performing arts and the problem of practice-as-research.