Instigating Intimacies
Chapter 1 examines the blurring of distinctions between audience and actor in director Carlos Díaz’s creative staging of Las relaciones de Clara (2007) (by German playwright Dea Loher) in the musty rooms of a colonial home. Using Bersani and Phillips’s theories, the chapter investigates how a proliferation of intimacies creates a sense of sameness that is rooted in physical proximity and discomfort. This chapter shows how reimagining the possibility of physical intimacies can produce a shared hopefulness between audience, play troupe, and nation. What makes these theatrical intimacies relevant in a contemporary Cuban context is how they resist the state’s persistent attempts to fabricate its own version of a unified society.
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2020 ◽
Vol 96
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pp. 73-88