An Director's Journeys Through the Urban Landscape: An Interview with Francis Wilker

Abstract

This interview with Francis Wilker examines the interactions between theatre, city, and landscape through his trajectory as a stage director, researcher, and member of Teatro do Concreto. Revisiting formative experiences, creative processes, and academic reflections, the interviewee presents the development of a staging practice in dialogue with urban space, understood as an aesthetic, political, and relational medium. The conversation traces the genesis of works created in Brasília, with particular emphasis on the performance Entrepartidas (2010), and discusses, among other perspectives, the development of the concept of landscape staging. It also problematizes the ethical and political dimensions of artistic creation with the city, reflecting on the occupation of public space, the constraints on coexistence, and the social tensions that permeate the contemporary Brazilian urban context.