Abstract
The study starts from the notion of “beautiful animal” to think about the compositional paradigms of contemporary drama, in the wake of Jacques Rancière and Jean-Pierre Sarrazac’s reflections. In this critical path, the anatomical image of the theatrical fable, still present in modern theorists such as Hegel and Peter Szondi, is shifted to a teratological metaphor that proposes the mythos as reminiscence and political and intimate testimony of the fictional subject. The syntagmatic logic of action, the drama-in-life, is reassembled in an inorganic and regressive reason for the sequence of acts, consubstantiating an aesthetic treatment that, like Passion and Process, characterizes what we call post-catastrophe dramaturgy.
Keywords:
beautiful animal; testimony; post-catastrophe drama