Memories of a World Beyond the Abyss

Abstract

Memories of a world beyond the abyss is the result of the creation project developed in the Master of Current Arts and Scenes, Arts et scènes d'aujourd'Hui, of the university AMU, Aix-Marseille Université, of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, France, between the years 2020 and 2022. The play was presented on three occasions in France and its text, in French, awarded the second place of the Prix Prémices of the university of Toulouse, being edited and released by the publisher Domens, in the series Tangentes. The chapters that compose the narrative illustrate the feeling of a suburban woman far apart from her homeland. She wonders about her place in the world. A night of insomnia during the covid XIX pandemic brings memories and reflections on experiences lived in Brazil and France; two distant football matches in time stun this Brazilian far away from her country, her soccer team and its football crowd fans; the body disciplined by the Catholic school; a prince and the inheritances of a kingdom; the people and the fractures of a country born of colonial violence; joy as a way of resisting. The sensation of the existence of an abyss between the two worlds experienced by the artist gives life to this work. The coloniality present in the construction of bodies and imaginaries governs, yet, the world and relations. Recovering the memory of everyday life and subtle acts of resistance is an attempt to glimpse the identity itself. Sharing this work with the public is a political act. Keywords: Contemporary dramaturgy. Autofiction. Decolonial theater.