La noche de los asesinos: Playscript and Stage Enactment
1977; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2161-0576
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics
ResumoJ. L. Styan has stated that plays are meant to be seen and not read, which is not to say that they cannot or should not be read. Nor does such a statement deny that drama qualifies as literature. published playscript, however, is a special kind of book that has not been written so much for a reading public as for an audience of theatregoers. readers of a dramatic text engage in a private activity, whereas the audience's experience of that same text is social and communal. readers hold in their hands the blueprint of a complex, four-dimensional art form; the audience shares the end-product of a collaborative effort which transforms that blueprint into the total theatre event. theatregoer's perception and understanding of a play comes from the way in which the diverse elements of the performance are orchestrated, in time and space, to produce a desired effect. In the readers' case, the script substitutes for the performance and is the primary means of grasping a play's essence. If necessary, the text can be read numerous times, an opportunity not afforded to the viewing public. Yet the readers' experience is somehow incomplete and should be supplemented by an imaginary staging of the text. As Styan notes: The reader of a play must be ready to see and hear in his mind's eye and in his mind's ear. It is little wonder then that the reading of playscripts demands the full use of what Shakespeare referred to as imaginary puissance.
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