In this article, we present a qualitative analysis of four theatrical performances interpreted by SLIs. The main objective of this paper is to discuss the place not only physical, but ideological that sign language interpreters (SLI) occupy in theatrical performances. Based on the dialogue proposed by Bakhtin and the Circle, we discuss that a set of interrelated texts forms the performance. In the analysis of four theater presentations, we observe issues related to the enunciative and, therefore, the ideological position of sign language interpreters in the theater. We discussed these questions in both the extraverbal and verbal portions of the utterances. It was more evident mainly in three elements: in the information material and the disclosure of the shows, in the responses to the questionnaire of the SLI who participated in the research, and in the translational/interpretative choices that relate to positioning on the scene.
