Dramaturgias en tiempos de cambio

Abstract

The creative act of writing re-signifies historical wounds and allows the collective processing of trauma, dignifying the work of the storyteller and his or her responsibility in the construction of a better country. Dramaturgies in times of change: voices of reconciliation and memory is a literary bet for peace and reconciliation, which aims to transcend the state of pain, uncertainty and unpleasantness that remains as a result of the war. This compendium gathers five plays by students and graduates of the Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional: Letras y semillas, Voces de la memoria, Eterno secreto, Lista 13, El descenso a los infiernos (Letters and Seeds, Voices of Memory, Eternal Secret, List 13, The Descent into Hell). In each of these dramatic works, organized thematically, the way in which Colombians construct the reality of a country that has been the victim of various types of violence throughout its history is told, but which is now walking a new path of relationship based on reconciliation and the memory of a resilient people. Theater is the stage for catharsis, reflection and listening, and the performing arts, a branch of knowledge that bets on encounter and teaching, in a spirit of construction and repair of the social fabric; therefore, its authors, in a contemporary artistic bet that uses multiple literary resources, explore the depths of human feeling in difficult contexts, but which are the seed to harvest, through the words, the times of change.