Das máscaras da Commedia dell´'arte aos personagens da microssérie Capitu, dirigida por Luiz Fernando Carvalho: entrevista com a preparadora de elenco Tiche Vianna

Abstract

Beatriz Maria Vianna Rosa, better known as Tiche Vianna, is an actress and theater director, who works mainly on the following fronts: commedia dell'arte, masks and popular theater. She coordinates and directs Barracão Teatro: space for investigation and theatrical creation based in Campinas (in São Paulo state). She was the casting coach for the microseries “Capitu” (2008), directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho for Rede Globo, about which she offers, in this interview, more details about the director's way of working, the issues involved along the adaptation, preparation of cast and methods he used. “Capitu” is the adaptation of “Dom Casmurro” (1899), written by Machado de Assis, and is part of “Projeto Quadrante”, which aimed at adapting for television literary works set in specific Brazilian regions under the coordination of Carvalho. The director has developed his own style of directing adaptations, which we call baroque (SARDUY, 1979; CAMPOS, 2001; PINHEIRO, 2013). In this interview, Tiche Vianna speaks about the backstage of the transformation of the book “Dom Casmurro” into the microseries “Capitu”, revealing the relationships that were made between the characters from the book with archetypes of the commedia dell'arte, as well as giving more details about their relationship with the director, with the actors and other steps taken in the product development process.