Postdrama culture in Ecuador and Spain: Methodological framework and comparative study

• Published in: Comunicar Vol. 26; no. 57; pp. 39 - 47
• Main Authors: Orosa-Roldán, Miguel-Ángel, López-López, Paulo-Carlos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Huelva Grupo Comunicar 2018; Grupo Comunicar Ediciones
• Edition: English ed.
• Subjects: Activism; Comparative Analysis; Critical Theory; Cultural Capital; Democracy; Drama; Dramatics; Foreign Countries; Indigenous Populations; Participation; Personality; Popular Culture; Qualitative research; Spanish; Theater; Theaters; Vision; World Views; Ecuador; Spain
• ISSN: 1134-3478
• DOI: 10.3916/C57-2018-04

This paper is based on a neo-functionalist constructivist theory, allowing us to understand that dialogue processes and social participation build culture with a dynamic and civic vision, as opposed to organic and more conservative visions. The main objective is to create a panel analysis of plays, from the point of view of drama (sense) and post-drama (nonsense), introducing cross-cutting concepts such as identity, interculturality and participation. The second objective, as a way to validate these panels, is to comparatively analyze the similarities and differences of two types of post-theater expressions in the Spanish language, European and Andean theater, particularly in Ecuador. This descriptive and qualitative research applies the analytical-synthetic method to approach the study of seven plays, with a dramatic and postdramatic model. As a result, the usefulness of the panels developed for this study on the elements of order and chaos is validated, as well as the ability to understand internal and external participation. As a general conclusion, it is observed that current Ecuadorian plays respond to a post-drama culture that uses elements of the single dramatic stage and distinctive indigenous factors.