This article sought to foster discussions about violence against women in a heterosexual relationship, as well as getting to know discourses on gender, violence, power, femininities and masculinities from the following groups of some cities in the State of São Paulo: pickers of recyclable material, students of a literacy program and of a vocational college, and finally, health-care professionals. The methodological path laid out also intended to inaugurate a new device for research and social intervention within Psychology: Forum Theatre. Scenes were constructed that depict a protagonist in situation of violence and we asked for people to go up to the stage and to help resolve that impasse. Five presentations were held for groups of 10 to 50 participants of both women and men. During the forum, there were three types of speeches that were named as regulating speeches, counter discourse and legal discours, which showed the positions undertaken by (the) speakers in discursive order. These were analyzed though Foucaultian analysis of speech. In addition, it was possible to conduct trials who took the theatre forum method as aesthetic and political device capable of producing debates, question of truth regimes and emancipate involved subjects.
Gender; Violence against women; Theatre; Discourse