Stage Dramaturgy. World, Finitude and Symbol: Concepts for an Ontology of the <i>Mise-en-Scène</i>

Abstract

This paper proposes an ontological description of stage dramaturgy with the purpose of finding its conditions of possibility using Heidegger’s philosophical concepts. The study avoids making moral and ethical speculations about what the director should know or do, neither about his/her abilities and knowledge. Its focus is set on process of creating a poetic world based on the heideggerian conception of world and finitude, as well as on the original sense of the symbolic. Also, the concept of stage dramaturgy will be considered as a process of sorting the poetic world through relations of dramatic progression and tension.