Language, Words, and Dramaturgy

A Tall Tale

Abstract

Words are usually given a predominant role in theater performance and allowed to determine the staging of the dramatic setting. This article aims to rethink the role of words and the tension they create with the performance, perceiving them instead as a resource to set the different ways of affecting the perception and experience that are liberated in their dramatization. In other words, it seeks to understand the words of a dramatic text in their most basic paradox: as carriers of the image in the text but simultaneously as a component of the image of the materialized play