Recontextualizaciones en el convivio preescénico: una modalidad de enseñanza de la noción de conflicto a actores con padecimientos de salud mental

Abstract

We borrow from the theatrical field the notion of diverse writing practices and from sociolinguistics the notion of textual trajectories, in order to describe the teaching experience conducted by the theater-school group El Brote, based since 1997 in the city of Bariloche, province of Rio Negro, Argentine Patagonia. The actors of this troupe are people with mental health conditions that are in the process of being deinstitutionalized. The article illustrates in particular the teaching of the concept of conflict along with these actors over a period of two years. The methodology used was the rewriting of improvisations that arose during pre-production until their condensation into a pre-performance author’s text. The results of the experience show the progressive growth of critical judgment and a professional identity among the performers, which suggests exploring more deeply the effect of continuous actoral training for people with mental illness.