To Be Or Not To Be!

Abstract

The chosen theme is a contemporary one and should not represent a taboo subject. If we still invoke freedom of expression, in whatever form it may be, and free will, in life decisions and for life, it would be appropriate to show honesty and submit to attention the entire range of transformations of society, because only in dialogue will we could draw defining strokes for the future. The study does not want to highlight a form of discrimination, it does not aim to deny or accept certain aspects, it does not present positions for or against, nor does it promote personal opinions, but it launches for analysis and debate an aspect that marks the present time in theatrical pedagogy. The fundamental questions, to which we have not found an answer, are outlined as follows: Which side should be cultivated during the time allocated to the training of a transgender person who aspires to become an actor? The real one or the one in the making, if there is a definitive decision on this, and the student in question is not yet in a moment of searches? In the visible situation of joining the sex opposite to the one at birth, for which gender is the student being trained?