O corpo monstruoso e sofredor do teatro de Angélica Liddell

Abstract

In plays which deal with individual and collective pain, it is primarily the omnipresence of a trivial body which is disturbing. That of a performer, author and director of creations which are close to the performance. This envelope of flesh and blood that has become unbearable, has suffered exhaustion and self mutilation and secretes repugnant substances all over the boards. A tool or a medium of this aesthetic violence, this impulsive animalistic body can follow either a spiritual or sacred path. As a figure of martyr or redemption, the body is given, sacrificed in a ritual with every performance. The Atra Bilis company presents to us a highly political drama where the body reveals our relationship with Society and concretizes our refusal of established conventions.