Adicción, metateatralidad y aburrimiento en The Connection, de Jack Gelber

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/1414573102412021e0204

Palabras clave:

Teatro estadunidense, Jack Gelber, Metateatro, Off-Broadway

Resumen

Este trabajo analiza The Connection, de Jack Gelber, estrenada en 1959 en el Living Theatre, donde se convirtió en un fenómeno cultural del Off-Broadway de Nueva York. Utilizando la herramienta metateatral de la pieza-dentro-de-la-pieza, la obra mezcla la espera de un grupo de adictos a heroína por la llegada de un traficante, presentada de manera muy despejada, con el proceso de dramatización de la vida cotidiana de los usuarios de narcóticos. A partir del estudio de su estructura metateatral, así como de su ambiguo desacuerdo con las varias tendencias formales y temáticas características del arte mainstream estadunidense contemporáneo, se propone como su auténtica singularidad la producción deliberada de aburrimiento en el público.

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Biografía del autor/a

Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Doutorado e Mestrado em Teoria e Crítica Literária pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), com estágio doutoral na City University of New York, onde foi Segal Fellow no Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. Faz parte do conselho científico e é secretária internacional para a América Latina da Edward Albee Society

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Publicado

2021-08-14

Cómo citar

SANTANA, Esther Marinho. Adicción, metateatralidad y aburrimiento en The Connection, de Jack Gelber. Urdimento, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 41, p. 1–29, 2021. DOI: 10.5965/1414573102412021e0204. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/19821. Acesso em: 12 may. 2024.