DISPOSITIVOS CÊNICOS DE SUBVERSÃO NA PALHAÇARIA FEMINISTA

Abstract

This text is the result of research that investigates the dramaturgical means with which female clowns question gender inequalities. It is intended, in this writing, to point out possible scenic devices that subvert such inequalities. The main hypothesis is that some clowning performed by women is an instrument of subversion, because they would help to break expectations and patterns of behavior pre-established and expected by society on the part of women. How could clowning performed by women be configured as a device of subversion? How does the condition and reality of women influence and encourage the creation of clown shops with a feminist content? What dramaturgical, aesthetic and poetic devices of feminist clowns use? The main references in the text are the psychologist and gender researcher Valeska Zanello, and some brazilian clown women, either in their reflections or in their creations.