DRAMATURGY IN "POST-DRAMATIC" TIMES

Abstract

There’s something deeply transforming the theater. Hans-Thies Lehmann had the merit of nominate this phenomenon by proposing the notion of "post-dramatic theater" - even though this expression is arguable to the extent that these new forms do not necessarily nullify the drama. Twentieth-century theater was based on the paradigm of "art in two moments" (Henri Gouhier). The author writes a play, and then the director picks it up and assembles it. This is Artaud's utopia, that of a "unique creator" that seems to take shape in this early 21st century. Dramaturgy is inevitably affected by this evolution: obviously, in its first sense, an art of writing a play, when writing and staging occur in the same movement; but also in its modern sense, when the term applies to the passage to a scene of a pre-existing room. Between the transformation of a dramatic work into a material for the scene, regardless of its dramatic structure, and the imposition of a rigid "reading grid", there should still be room for open and sensitive dramaturgy, creating the conditions for a experience for the public.

Keywords

Dramaturgy. Dramaticity. Dramatic writing. "Post Dramatic" Theater. Performance. Experience.