Brain_Heart

Brain_Heart is a conference-play written by actress Mariana Lima, rescuing, in essence, potentially transformative spaces: theater and the classroom/brain and heart. A path taken through memory, otherness, and the experience build by language and overflowing in other lifeforms. An experience in dialogue putting into perspective modes of learning, awareness and a scientific-poetic understanding of the world, twisted by transfigurations of language itself, of the performing experience and of the body, this narratively sleeping skeleton, responsible, at the same time, for keeping us upright.

Mariana Lima shares notes taken over a lifetime, based on writers who were decisive for her perception of the world and her artistic education, including Proust, Clarice Lispector and Virginia Woolf. The search for simplicity, the possibility of creating, building, communicating and also making use of forgetting, are some essential devices in this play, whose driving force is supported by reflections surrounding themes such as memory, language, temporality, customs and other theoretical investigations that result in a consistent artistic capital, much-needed to think about the now.

About the author
Mariana Lima is an actress, producer, director and playwright, with a memorable trajectory in stage, film and television. Born in São Paulo, she spent ten years at Teatro da Vertigem, acting in anthological productions such as Apocalypse 1,11 and O livro de Jó (The Book of Job), both directed by Antônio Araújo. The highlights in her actress career are A paixão segundo G.H. (The Passion According to G.H.), Gaivota: tema para um conto curto (Albatross: Theme for a Short Story) and A primeira vista (First Sight), directed by Enrique Diaz; Máquina de abraçar [Hug Machine], directed by Malu Galli; Pterodátilos [Pterodactyls], directed by Felipe Hirsch, which earned her the Shell Award for best actress in 2011; A mulher que matou os peixes (The Woman Who Killed the Fish), directed by Cristina Moura; Nômades (Nomads), directed by Márcio Abreu; and Os realists (The Realists), directed by Guilherme Weber. In 2018, she won the Cesgranrio Award for best actress for Brain_Heart, directed by Enrique Diaz and Renato Linhares.

About the collection
The Dramaturgia collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish collection, and, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa, the French collection. Over 70 authors have been published, with 82 titles.

Specifications
Collection Dramaturgy Collection
Author Mariana Lima
Language Portuguese
Page count 72
ISBN 9786556910390
Cover Cubículo
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2021