Dirección, memoria y género

Abstract

The article aims to highlight the importance of theater direction in, teaching performing arts from the particular perspective of the author, based on her experience as an artist and a teacher. The scope of work is determined by her experience as a director and a dramatist in a number of works in which her vision of gender predominates, in contrast to topics related to different forms of violence that happen in Colombia. Methodologically, the author presents a particular social problem and narrates the transit made toward different plays she has written and produced, As a conclusion the author presents the social commitment of theater and the contribution it could give to the construction of meaning within a society.

Keywords

Directing

memory

violence

gender

playwrighting

References

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Pulecio Mariño, E. (2013). Luchando contra el olvido. Investigación sobre la dramaturgia del conflicto. Segunda parte. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura.