To Make Be, Ways Of Feeling

The Enunciative Role Of Black Fabric In The Monologue A Alma Imoral

Abstract

This article examines the monologue A Alma Imoral (Clarice Niskier, 2006), a stage adaptation of the homonymous book by the rabbi Nilton Bonder (1998), through French-line discursive semiotics. It describes how the staging articulates the planes of expression and content to produce scenic meaning and how it mobilizes enunciative choices that stage the tension between norm and transgression. The study examines how procedures of discursivization and textualization take part in the persuasive doing of enunciation, which combines strategies of conviction, supported by biblical-cultural isotopies, with strategies of emotional impact, linked to the reduction of non-verbal elements. The figurative plurivariance of one scenic element, the black fabric that, throughout the performance, assumes successive plastic configurations, indicates its role as an enunciative adjuvant in constructing the paths of meaning that articulate the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of the spectacle. The article suggests that Greimasian semiotics offers instruments to describe theatrical language and points to research directions, such as the analysis of the intersemiotic procedures of adaptation and the investigation of reception in different sociocultural contexts.