Dwell the durings: creative process in the study of re-writings in contemporary dramaturgy

Abstract

The study of contemporary dramaturgy involves the complexity of write in/for the scene. Considering dramaturgy as a specific theatral practice -it means it is involved with scene’s materialness and temporalities-, research’s challenges have to look over some concepts and methods. The study of re-writing practice in dramaturgy adds another complexity: writing what was already written is a way of appropriation and recontextualization. Therefore, we ought to ask what writing is, what authority is and what time is. At the same time, actual arts are political because of their ways of creation; as a consequence, to research actual arts we have to attend the creative process, not only the product or the result.

In the present work, we want to approximate to Edipo R.’s creative process Organización Q’s theater play, showed at the first time in Córdoba in 2008 and directed by Luciano Delprato - and we are interested in think about this re-writing of Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, as a becoming-minor, in the words of Deleuze & Guattari.