Encuentro del director y el actor entorno a las acciones físicas abordando un personaje esquizofrénico: estudio en la versión libre de los otros blancos de Orlando Ramírez

Abstract

The thesis reflects on the nature of theatrical spectacle understood as an integral composition in which actor, director, set design, lighting, and stage space converge. It highlights that these elements mutually support each other to construct an experience that transforms the spectator into an accomplice and observer of intensified situations, where the characters face personal and group conflicts that shape the plot. Although the audience experiences profound emotions – joy, suffering, identification – they rarely perceive the complex creative process that precedes the finished work and gives form to the staging that they only witness as a final result. The text delves particularly into the relationship between actor and director as the essential axis of the creative process. It argues that, although many factors intervene in a theatrical production, it is in this bond where the fundamental agreements on the construction of the characters are defined. The study focuses on the production of Los otros blancos (The Other White People), a free adaptation of the text by Luis Hernández, where the acting work was explored based on physical actions, particularly relevant because one of the characters presents schizophrenia. In addition to briefly addressing this mental illness, the text reflects on how contemporary society influences dramaturgical production and why psychological problems are acquiring an increasing presence in theatrical creation and in the subjects of the current world.