Aspectos relevantes da dramaturgia para a infância nas palavras de quem faz o teatro infantil.

Abstract

This article begins by reflecting on the first children´s theater book published in Brazil, namely Teatrinho infantil (literally: Little theater for children), by Figueiredo Pimentel, and after it presents the purpose of the work, which is to draw from a set of different publications (interview, testimony, transcript discussion, articles published initially in newspapers, academic publications such as theoretical works and scientific journals) information on the dramaturgy for children or aspects of the children´s theater that are as well useful for thinking the dramaturgy for children. This theme is not recurrent in the studies of Brazilian children´s literature and it has not yet received, in this country, the same attention by researchers that poetry and narrative have. There was no intention of mapping a specific historical period of publications, but rather to revisit the voices of some directors, actors, researches, critics and playwrights who have contributed to the Performing Arts, specially those aimed at children. In the end, an important gallery of information can be found that can help guide a children´s theater that serves the principles of childhood and legitimize the art that must be offered to this audience and, of course, the dramaturgy that will serve as a starting point for the construction of these theater productions. Although the researched authors do not intend to predict a dramaturgy to be read by children, we – enthusiasts of this possibility – can affirm that the aspects raised indicate some ways for a dramaturgy for this purpose.