From the Warsaw Ghetto to Messianic Time: Polis and Memory in Juan Mayorga’s El cartógrafo. Varsovia, 1: 400.000

• Autores: Juan Caamaño
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 221-234
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In keeping with Juan Mayorga’s dramatic concerns, the play El cartógrafo (2016) brings past and present into contact in space; on this occasion, the space in question is the city of Warsaw. More than locus of the play’s action, Warsaw is the embodiment of the Polis or the being-together of the people. As a space, the city joins past and present in what, following Walter Benjamin, can be called “homogenous, empty time.” Defined in this temporal sense by an identity and continuity between past and present for which the name Warsaw serves as a laconic signifier, the city space is...