The master thesis The Emergence of the Real in Theatrical Experience offers a critical view on the play Nu de mim mesmo (Nude of myself) staged in Rio de Janeiro, in 2008, by the Companhia Teatro Autônomo (Autonomous Theatre Company) which represents an innovative reference in the Carioca theatre scenery of the past twenty years. Created in a collaborative process involving actors and the direction of Jefferson Miranda, in partnership with Flavio Graff, this production, based on the theatrical field in its specificity and materiality, also establishes dialogues with the fields of Literature, Fine Arts and Cinema. Throughout a metalinguistic driven investigation, the group can be inserted into a particular branch of the contemporary theatre that questions its own limits, offering an advantageous experimental field to the intercrossing of various medias. Within this scope, with an approach that is close to the constructivist perspective, the thesis rehearses alternative forms of understanding contemporary theatre, and analyzes concepts such as reality, meaning and identity, all of them understood beyond the reality/fiction dichotomy.