Didascalias: the skin of the theater

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of didascalia as corpus (Nancy) and hinge (Derrida), limit trope of the dramatic text at both theoretical and theatrical levels. This research intends to reflect on its potential as a trace which describes both the corpus which allows for the recovery of something of the actual event in one of the instances of composition, production, performance and publication of the text, and the mute speech (Rancière) which –in the difference between being present and absent– enables us to understand appearance as the spacing of future readings by directors, actors, stage designers, among other agents of the theater and non-specialized readers.

Keywords

• Dramaturgia
• puesta en escena
• didascalias
• corpus
• juntura