Aesthetic paradigms of the Colombian theater in the twentieth century

Abstract

The article is a reflection on the times and styles of Colombian theater in the 20th century. It is not so much a historical account, neither exhaustive, nor descriptive about the facts, but a theoretical proposal, a vision, a hypothesis about the whole of a process, in which some coordinates are established and certain cultural and artistic factors that have marked the evolution of this theater are systematized. Consequently, we postulate the existence of four paradigms: The Spanish theater, the modern theater, the theater of collective creation and the post-modern theater. In each of them, certain formal patterns can be identified, a poetic imaginary and a social conception. The idea is to draw an overall panorama, the thick lines of the path that the national theater and its times have followed.