COMPANHIA SENHORAS DO CERRADO: SUBJETIVIDADE E SAÚDE NO PROCESSO DE ENVELHECER.

Abstract

The present work, based on Qualitative Epistemology, aims to understand how the subjectivity is produced in the experience of the theatre, and how it reverberates in the ageing process of the elderly subject. As a participant, this study had a lady, 91, who belongs to the theatre company Senhoras do Cerrado, from the Municipal Secretariat of Social Assistance in Goiânia municipality. For the gathering of information, there was developed a conversation with the participant about her experience in interpreting the poems and texts on theatre. Writings from different authors and the dramatic art were used as indicators capable to show the ageing of the studied lady, and at the same time the texts provided her an opening to creativity and production of new feelings and meanings about her ageing process. It was also possible to realize that the public presentations, provided by the theatre company, fortified the social role of the participant in relation to possible changes in the society s prejudiced paradigms related to old people. Across the 15 years of research in the Senhoras do Cerrado company theatre, the studied lady could produce many subjective feelings about her healthy aging. Among these, it is possible to point the autonomy, the facing of her limitations, possibilities, femininity, and finitude. It was verified that the theatre and the interpretation could be changing agents in people s reality, besides favoring their real facing of old age, without any masks . The dramatic art allows people, herein represented by the lady, to demonstrate their difficulties, illness, declines, and, above all, their self-perception as a subject in development process; people who can face their limitation and believe in their possibilities. The present work highlights the necessity of keeping the researches about interventions as this: a different way of traditional Psychology action, using the poetic and dramatic arts in the searching of a subject, without the polarization of wrong or right.