Experiência trágica: do conceito ao experimento

Abstract

This research investigates the possibility of a tragic experience of a spectator or the author in contemporary theater. The objective is to question the possibility of the concentration of tragic, for example, in a performance gesture. Hans-Thies Lehmann, in his book 'Tragödie und dramatisches Theater' (2014), reflects on the tragic experience, which involves several aspects, such as the aestheticization of a tragic event, the breakup of this aesthetization and a reflection. Multiple re-writings, experiments and fragments were collected and researched organized under the name of 'Estrada V', based mainly on Heiner Müller's 'The Road of Volokolamsk' and the experiences of the present author. The focus was on reflections and practices of the relationship between stage and the public and the possibility of a tragic experience to occur. It has been found that in the modern world, the mystique of excess need not be grand, but an increased attention to the common is demanded. The theater of contemporary tragedy is a place of intense awareness of loss, where the subject is confronted with the inevitable dissolution of being and with an experience of one's own finitude. In this context, the tragic in contemporary theater investigates the fragmented subject of the present world, touching on the old and always renewed experience of excess. The fundamental destiny of the tragic character is its desire to investigate for a greater truth in a world where there are no certainties and irrefutable postulates. It was verified that in performance art the creation of the tragic arises from affection, establishing a specific connection between the performer and the receiver, allowing the emergence of a tragic experience.