THE POST COCKTAIL SCENE: THE AIDS INTERFACES IN SCENE ARTS
AIDS, Performing Arts, Discursive Epidemic, Metaphor, Post Cocktail.
This paper reads AIDS as a metaphor and advocates the use of metaphor from the construction rehearsed by author Susan Sontag (2007). Here I present just a few drop-shaped taunts, a reactive drop of the ongoing research fluids entitled “The Post-Cocktail Scene: The aids interfaces in scene arts”. We will discuss the poetic representations of AIDS in the performing arts and how they interact with elements intrinsic to a culture characterized by male dominance, social disparities between gender, class and race boundaries. This dose I present to you is a compilation of essay-written writings from the first semesters of research on the notion of “post cocktail” by Alexandre Nunes (2015). I propose to review the notion of post cocktail as a possible representation for the discursive examination of the epidemic in the performing arts in Brazil. This representation that dialogues with the idea of “discursive epidemic” reflected by Marcelo Secron Bessa (1997) emerges in the literary field, being shifted to a context in which the epidemic occurs in the national scene arts, I try to cast a post-cocktail look at the performing arts, and I exemplify how this notion influences the reading of the processes of creation in the national theater scene and performance as self-fiction. In the second part of the work I let myself be contaminated by performative experiences weaving some reflections on them.