Theater and intermidiality: a study of the spectacle “When I die I will tell God everything”

Abstract

Occidental theater is born through intermediality. Starting from literary structures to develop itself as a language, for many centuries the theater has been understood as an enunciator of the dramatic text. Furthermore, in its evolution, theater will embrace, from an early age, other artistic languages. However, all these possibilities of entanglement will be intentionally articulated and will expand in the experiments of contemporary theater, reducing the limits and creating problematic and new concepts about art fields, unexplored until then. That being said, we will analyze the construction proposal of the spectacle 'When I die, I'll tell God everything' (2019), by the collective 'O Bonde', which links the work of the actors with music, storytelling, dance and proposes a unique visuality through several scenic elements. In addition, the dramaturgy of the spectacle is conceived from newspaper news and real stories, which tenses the relationship between the real and the fictional, bringing new dimensions to the spectator. Therefore, the spectacle proposes a hybrid narrative, which is updated through the interaction between these different media and supports in the dialogue with spectators in the ephemeral time of the theatrical scene. Our objective is, therefore, to investigate questions about the spectacle and respective subjectivities in the delimitation of an intermediate bias for the construction of the scene. To delimit the scope of analysis, the concepts of Patrice Pavis, Chiel Kattenbelt and Silvia Fernandes are used as a theoretical basis.