Resumo:
This dissertation in Theater Arts reflects on the creative process for two works that are
part of Trilogy of the Tropics, a project developed and realized by Coletivo das Liliths
(Collective of Liliths) from 2017 to 2022 and that serves as a space of reencountering the
narratives of LGBTQIAPN+ who were strategically silenced in the national context. In
this collective effort, I led the creative process and served as director for each work,
incorporating applied methodologies in order to speak of the sociopolitical reality of the
dissident artists involved and identify what artistic practices Liliths can leave behind for
future generations of artists interested in reencountering the silenced narratives of
LGBTQIAPN+ people through theater art. Throughout the dissertation I reencounter with
memories––physical and affective––related to collective artistic practices with the
intention of sharing with the reader how the stage director navigated their anxieties to
devise forms of theater making that appear across these works. This work is also an
investigation invested in the signs and traces left by forms of knowledge produced in the
rehearsal space, from backstage.
