“MAMÃE EU QUERO!”: CARMEN MIRANDA E A CONSTRUÇÃO DO CORPO SIMBÓLICO DA DRAG QUEEN NOS CAMINHOS DA ENCENAÇÃO TEATRAL

Abstract

This paper describes and comments, in an experience report format, on the processes by which the production of the play “Mamãe Eu Quero!” (Mommy I Want!) was created, performed in the curricular component “Integrated Scenic Practice – PCI” (2024.1) of the Undergraduate Course in Theater at UFRN, which focused on the figure of the singer, actress and dancer Carmen Miranda, considered a pop diva and one of the main aesthetic-behavioral references for the emergence of drag queens, for being able to express in her artistic performance the effervescent dimension of a media imaginary (cinema, radio and TV), of what would be “the tropics” and the female figure eroticized by exoticism. The paper seeks to make evident how childhood memories of affection and media symbols of female figures produced a creative impact on the artist/researcher, to the point of creating a theatrical performance. The report also discusses much of my academic training and takes the senses of experience and memory as reference and foundation.