Finding the spectator's footprints

Abstract

This article examines theater as a collective experience, highlighting its character as event, ritual and assembly. Following García Canclini, it points out how theatrical rituals preserve imaginaries, utopias and identities, providing meaning and encouraging reflection. The importance of the spectator's experience is emphasized, symbolically transferring them to the stage to explore their practices and perspectives. The premise is that sharing experiences enriches them, allows them to be investigated and generates common questions about expectation and aesthetic reflection.

The article also addresses the understanding of the various types of discursive production in theater, its diffusion, audience and repercussion in different social segments. It uses a synchronic approach to analyze the circulation of discourses at specific moments, focusing on the symbolic. It examines how theatrical experiences generate reactions in spectators, how they express them and to whom their discourses are addressed. In addition, it investigates the critical nature of these discourses, identifying evaluations, descriptions and analyses of cultural experience, and observing whether they are descriptive or reflexive.