Transcriação e performance ritual no espetáculo "Romeu e Julieta; o reencontro de Shakespeare com a cultura popular" do Grupo Garajal

Abstract

This thesis investigates the process of adaptation and staging of the performance “Romeu e Julieta: o encontro de Shakespeare com a cultura popular”, produced by Grupo Garajal, from the city of Maracanaú, Ceará. The main objective of this study is to analyze the operations of transcreation, regionalization, and ritualization that allowed the appropriation and re signification of this canonical universal work within the aesthetic universe of Northeastern performative traditions. Methodologically, the research is grounded in autoethnography, assuming the unique position of the researcher as the adapter and dramaturg of the play, transforming living memory and direct participation into ethnographic data subjected to scientific rigor. The methodological design is organized into complementary procedures that articulate a theoretical-bibliographical review; founded on process criticism, the anthropology of the imaginary, and the "teatro brincante” (Playful theater/Festive theater), content analysis of the empirical corpus' documentary and audiovisual materials, the application of semi-structured interviews focused on oral history, and a rigorous triangulation of data. The results and discussions demonstrate that the production promotes a process of mythologizing Shakespeare, decentralizing the hegemony of the original text to adopt it as a generative matrix, played and reordered by the rhythms of Reisado de Congo, Maracatu, and Street Theater. It is concluded that the translation and adaptation into the local dialect transcend mere vernacularization, operating as a mythopoetic and anthropophagic device capable of politicizing the scene and recording the artistic memory of the urban periphery against the risk of historical erasure.