When Theater is at the Vanguard:

Ludovina Soares da Costa and The Deaf and Dumb or the Abbé de l’Épée: an Historical Drama

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Keywords:

Performance, Gender, History of Brazilian Theater, Deaf Studies, History of Deaf Education

Abstract

This article investigates the staging of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly’s play L’Abbé de l’Épée, [The deaf-mute or the Abbot de l’Épée] during Brazil's imperial period. The objective was to analyze how multiple discourses on deafness that circulated in the media, combined with the performance of the Portuguese actress Ludovina Soares da Costa as a deaf-mute young man motivated the founding of Brazil's first institution for the deaf, in Rio de Janeiro. The documentary study surveyed material from the newspaper collection at the Hemeroteca da Biblioteca Nacional, for periodicals from 1810 through 1860, reviewing ads, news and reviews of the performances. The results highlight the transmission of conceptions about deafness in the local society through theater.

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Author Biographies

Lucia Helena Reily, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Lucia Reily graduou-se com Bacharel em Artes (Programa Independent Learning) - Indiana University, com Revalidação em Educação Artística: hab. Artes Plásticas pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1978), mestrado em Psicologia Escolar e do Desenvolvimento Humano pela Universidade de São Paulo (1990) e doutorado em Psicologia Escolar e do Desenvolvimento Humano pela Universidade de São Paulo (1994). Atualmente é docente associada da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Tem experiência na área de Educação, com ênfase em Educação Especial, e Ensino da Arte, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: educação especial, estudos da deficiência, arte e deficiência, formação de professores e artes visuais.

Cássia Geciauskas Sofiato, Universidade de São Paulo

Professor at the School of Education of the University of São Paulo (FEUSP), in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences (EDF) and supervisor in the Graduate Program in Education. Post-doctoral internship at the Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Porto University , Portugal. She worked as a visiting professor at the of Porto University in Portugal, with a Capes Scholarship (2020 and 2021). She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Arts from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and a degree in Pedagogy: Teacher Development in Special Education from the Catholic University of Campinas.

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Published

2024-06-09

How to Cite

Reily, L. H., & Sofiato, C. G. (2024). When Theater is at the Vanguard:: Ludovina Soares da Costa and The Deaf and Dumb or the Abbé de l’Épée: an Historical Drama. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/132026

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024): Jul./Set. 2024

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Performance and Gender II

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