El teatro español y la construcción cultural del trauma. Notas sobre la dramaturgia de la memoria actual

Theatre, as a collective and social experience, can become one of the forms of cultural construction of trauma, that is, of the process of resignification of violent events of the past in the present. The dramaturgies of memory in the Spain of the last two decades are configured as a powerful means of symbolic representation, through which the audience experiences spaces crossed and inhabited by time, and thus elaborates the mourning of loss. The article offers a partial overview of the phenomenon, within a huge and ever-expanding corpus.