Myths and Intermediality in the Buenos Aires Scene

Expansive Stories

Abstract

In each historical and social circumstance, theatrical works based on classical myths generate new texts and constitute an inexhaustible source of new meanings, interpretations and meanings. While a classic text "absorbs all our contemporary time at a stroke" (Kott: 1969: 83), its rewriting from different contexts of production speaks of new realities from a subjective point of view gaze, in most cases, at producing a break with conventional narration.

The processes of rewriting to which we allude here reveal the notion of theatre understood as a playful phenomenon and as a festive event but, at the same time, they define it as an ideal instrument to generate critical thinking and investigate poetically in our reality, in our culture and in the collective imaginary.  In each case, the expressive possibilities of artistic and technological media explore myth and its readings, modify production and intensify theatrical communication