The Theater, the Grief and the City: a study about unconventional space from the perspective of postdramatic aesthetics

Abstract

How much emptiness, grief and loss are there in every corner, street and alley of a city? The public space silently carries with it the scars of its passersby, affected by the negligence of their feelings of pain. This article seeks to think about the relationship between aspects that characterize postdramatic theater and the theme of mourning the death of a child from the analysis of a staging developed and shared in unconventional theatrical spaces. When carrying out the performance in spaces of the city, we are faced with a scenic poetics that dialogues directly with the spectators' imagination, evidencing the paradox of the theater that carries both a collective and individual dimension, as well as the relationship with the public of the spaces and with the theme of the performance analyzed here, which refers to the feelings of emptiness that we carry in our being.