Acercamientos a lo real: Las didascalias en la obra de Beatriz Catani

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...

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Author: Conde, Laura Gabriela
Format: article
Publication Date:2025
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:PUCP-Institucional
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/205141
Online Access:https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/kaylla/article/view/30753/28116
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/205141
https://doi.org/10.18800/kaylla.202501.009
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Stage directions
Dramaturgy
Staging
Rhetoric
Affects
Didascalias
Dramaturgia
Puesta en escena
Retórica
Afectos
Didascálias
Encenação
Afeto
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.04.04
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Summary: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.