Theater in a post-literate world
Theater in a post-literate world

Summary/Abstract: The theater, as a living art, has always reflected certain aspects of society, and the great dramaturgical writings function as precise x-rays of pressing problems faced by the society of their time. Today, even if they stage plays from Antiquity or the Middle Ages, theater creators want to stage current realities with fundamentally human values ​​and themes, which have always accompanied us and will never disappear. However, contemporary theater faces a series of problems, or rather particularities, unprecedented in history, most of them revolving around new technologies and the impact they have on society in general and theater in particular. The present work wants to inventory the most recent phase of a phasing based on the relationship between technology and culture, phasing that divides the cultural evolution into three stages, according to the preferred state of the word in social communication, namely: the spoken word (oral culture) the word written (literate culture) and the illustrated word (post-literate culture), the current one.

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