Community Theatre in Florianópolis

Abstract This research project was developed in conjunction with the teaching and extension programmes of the Centro de Artes of Santa Catarina State University, in southern Brazil. It involved the creation of a presentation for and by children, based on educational work with children and adolescents. We began collecting data about imagery created by three groups of children: one from a community in the interior of the island, another from a slum neighbourhood in the centre of the city, and a third from a peripheral region on the mainland portion of Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. This data collection was based on three characters that arose in our work in one of these communities where the children gave the characters the curious names of: 7 Don't Know’, ‘Nobody’, and ‘Anybody’. We chose to work with these characters in the research stage because of their broad symbolism and the freedom they offered to the creative process. The data analysis led us to the theme of sexuality, principally as it related to t...