LA DRAMMATURGIA CONTEMPORANEA E IL PROBLEMA DEL MALE. STUDIO SUL TEATRO DI BECKETT, KANE, KUSHNER.

This Study focuses on the work of those contemporary dramatists who have chosen to take on the stage topical dramas and constitutive dilemmas of man, in his uninterrupted questions about the meaning of life, the value of existence, the presence of evil in the world. If the Twentieth Century has dismantled the idea of a general sense, a logical language able to read the facts of history in an orderly way, is the fragmentation, the partiality, the threshold in which the modern man can find a fruitful field of inquiry and can recognize his biography: new codes are needed, new formal models, although fed by the same drive hermeneutic. Looking at Samuel Beckett’s texts, considering the recent dramas by Sarah Kane and Tony Kushner, in these pages we analyze the fundamental characteristics of the contemporary theater, that we call "tragic": in its structure and peculiarity, we discover so the anxieties typical of our wretched days, as the need to confront the classical philosophical issues that have accompanied the theatrical experience since its emergence. Beckett, Kane and Kushner are regarded as authors capable of staging, of making visible on the scene, the wide range of horrors – from daily harassment to the devastation of genocide – that massively characterizes the current world; through their plays, the reader and the spectator can observe a merciless and extraordinary overview of what it means to stay in the world today, a detailed map of human action, even in its darkest and concealed aspects; in this sense, the enjoyment of such theatrical experience becomes particularly important, and produces an effect that we will not hesitate to define properly "cathartic".