Dissemination

Adriana Nogueira takes part in the CLASTEA Congress

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Adriana Nogueira, researcher at CIAC, is taking part in the VII CLASTEA Congress — Classics and the Theatre, where she will present a paper entitled “Tell me what you’re wearing and I’ll tell you who you are: the costume and characterisation of ancient theatre characters on contemporary stages”.

The VII CLASTEA focuses on academic perspectives on theatre, theoretical or practical, Greco-Latin or with Greco-Latin roots, from any historical or contemporary period, in order to promote a broad debate on its contributions, its uses and abuses, its characteristics and its various versions and subversions.

Adriana Nogueira’s presentation will focus on other elements that depend on the text, but not only: costumes, as a significant scenographic element. She will answer two main questions in her work, “Is the work of the costume designer valued or is it of residual importance? Do companies have a costume designer among their members? See José Carlos Faria, a Fine Arts graduate, actor, musician, set designer and costume designer for Teatro da Rainha; or do they hire designers from the fashion world? Take Valentim Quaresma, jewellery designer and professor at the Lisbon School of Design, invited by Teatro Livre. What is the process of deciding which costume to adopt?” and “Does the costume make the character? Where does the body belong? What is the audience’s immediate perception of the characters? What does an unclothed Antigone or a guard in uniform from the Estado Novo period tell us? What is the rationale (literary or visual sources from antiquity? Influence of cinema?) for the chosen costume? Can the costume change the understanding of the play? What is the meaning for which the costume is the signifier?”.

The congress will be held from 6 to 8 November 2024 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

More information (here).

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