The drama of the elderly: learning to tell stories through the play

Playwriting, one of the written narrative forms of telling a story, in addition to being practically unknown to the general public in Brazil, has had a paltry presence in the Academy. Aware of all the difficulties and particularities that involve the teaching of Dramatic Literature and the practice...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Berton, Paulo Ricardo, Ary, Rafael Luiz Marques
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repository:Extensio - Revista Eletrônica de Extensão
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/85640
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/extensio/article/view/85640
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Texto Dramático
Escrita Dramática
Terceira Idade
Storytelling
Dramatic Text
Dramatic Writing
Third Age
Escritura Dramática
Tercera Edad
Narrativa
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Summary:Playwriting, one of the written narrative forms of telling a story, in addition to being practically unknown to the general public in Brazil, has had a paltry presence in the Academy. Aware of all the difficulties and particularities that involve the teaching of Dramatic Literature and the practice of its writing, NEEDRAM (Research Centre in Theater Staging and Dramatic Writing), active in defending the importance and relevance of Drama in the contemporary theatrical scene, created curricular emphases of Playwriting at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), and in 2021, it expanded its field of activity, proposing to Seniors Study Centre (NETI) a workshop for the production of plays, so that its students could learn to tell stories, their own and those of others, in this literary format, and whose reception and results, some surprising, will be addressed in this article.