La 'mise en scène' en els drames medievals catalans

Abstract

The study of religious drama in the Middle Ages, which due to its character as a communal drama has occupied a place within the European avant-garde like perhaps no other epoch before, shows us a variety of spectacular visual, auditory and even olfactory possibilities of representation, which both require a highly developed technique, as well as an admirable aesthetic maturity and show us ways in which the rift between the actor and the spectator created by the proscenium stage can be eliminated. This can be exemplified by the only play in Europe that has been performed in an uninterrupted tradition since the Middle Ages (every August 15th) to the present day in the southern Valencian town of Elx near Alacant: The Misteri d'Elx is total theatre, shaped by a combination of excellent music and daring, perfect staging.