THE GERALD THOMAS BLOG NOVEL, POSSIBLE STRENGTHENIG OF DRAMATIC GENDER

Abstract

The first paragraph presents itself as a false or suspect statement coordinated to the article’s aim: study possible signs of the theatrical genre’s bonds on Gerald Thomas’ blognovel. The director has created a play specifically to his blog. Nowadays, the internet stands for a double function: it is part of the reality itself and its representation at once. The notions of time as a progressive condition and static place turns into a controversial issue if considered the complexity of random and simultaneous manners of timing and experiencing place as a flow.  Actually, place and time as theater’s paradigms themselves turn the delimitation of the theatrical genre a difficult if not useless task. Indeed, considering the tension as a criticism orientation to study the spectacle focus its strength as a creative act: from a single esthetic manifestation to theatrical and esthetic system influenced by the deinstitutionalization of Art. As a matter of fact, the multiple levels of tension indicate breakouts in the establishment. With a brief duration, these alternative routes carry on some outlines of the traditional configurations even if their function changes into questioning those ancient structures. The term blognovela may be understood as an action directed to the genre theater: if it denies the specification, as a paradox, it sustains the dialogue form and a real time presentation to an audition, at least one time. This spectacular manifestation puts in relief (and results of) the relationships between time-space configuration and the theatrical genre based on deliberated and indispensable levels of tension.