Entre rosas y colillas: un monólogo sobre la muerte en vida

Abstract

This research-creation project explores the notion of living death as the central axis of an acting and dramaturgical process. The proposal emerges from an intimate experience that, when shared and contrasted with more than eighty testimonies, reveals itself as a collective and social phenomenon. Through the character of Héctor, a monologue is constructed that makes visible states of emotional disconnection, existential emptiness, and everyday automatism, inviting the audience to recognize them in themselves or in their surroundings. The methodology articulates personal experience, collective resonance, attentive listening, and the tools of post dramatic theatre, privileging sensation over linear narration. The body, improvisation, and catharsis become the main creative engines that displace the traditional hierarchy of text and dramatic conflict. The result is a work that does not seek to resolve the experience of living death, but rather to share it and open a space for collective reflection.