The Return to Storytelling in the Theatre of the ThirdMillennium

After a long period of postmodernism, theatre at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as Anne Bogart observes, is marked by a return to the story. Storytelling is considered an act of transmitting deep human experiences through which bridges are established between storyteller and spectator, particular and universal, past and present. Thus, problematics regarding the human condition are expressed in current language addressing the body and the mind of the spectator. For a story to produce emotion, it is necessary for the storyteller to master nonverbal language, his interpretative techniques, marked by rigour and precision, to be transcended in a continuous process of personalization. Whether archaic or contemporary, a story must have the capacity of inducing in the spectator the state of active listening, to generate empathy, to create memory and identity, by appealing to archetypal figures and actions.