Approaches to the Real: The Didascalias in the Work of Beatriz Catani

• Autor: Conde, Laura Gabriela
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30753
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/kaylla/article/view/30753
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Didascalias; Dramaturgia; Puesta en escena; Retórica; Afectos; Stage directions; Dramaturgy; Staging; Rhetoric; Affects; Didascálias; Encenação; Afeto

This paper presents a rhetorical-affective analysis of the stage directions in Beatriz Catani’s dramaturgy. From the perspective of Affect Theory, this involves considering to what extent the writing of this "unspoken" aspect of the dramatic text constitutes a figure that produces and records ways of experimenting with language, bodies, space, and time. In this sense, different rhetorical, syntactic, and semantic forms in the stage directions of some of her works—especially in Ojos de ciervo rumanos—are examined. It is argued that these forms allow an exploration of the aesthetic pursuits and procedures that express the sensibilities and transformations of her time: it expresses what the author herself recognizes as “approaches to the real” in response to the “crisis of theatrical representation”. Thus, this study proposes an analysis of stage directions as a sign “saturated with affect”, memory, images, and bodies.