Presence and Reception of the Body as "Mise en abyme" in "En lo alto para siempre"

Abstract

The body -material basis of acting– and its expressive resources represent the ephemeral existence, both of theatre and of life itself, and the constant and latent posibility of jumping into the void, which is, at the same time, the essential characteristic of every theatrical event, unpredictable and uncertain, such as every living and mutable experience. This topic is explicit in the staging of "En lo alto para siempre" (2018) by Camila Fabbri and Eugenia Pérez Tomas, because it inconveniences the spectators due to the presence of the absent (death) through physical, repetitive and intense actions, which seem to be the reflection of the actual ephemeral condition of the spectators and the "mise en abyme" of the dramatic text that develops the same issue. To analyze this, the present article considers several authors that examine the latest theatrical paradigms, in which the encounter of the present bodies is the backbone.