Reconstrucción del personaje diablo de lata a través de la metodología de la agrupación Hijos del Sur

Abstract

In this project, the analysis, reconstruction, and the symbolic transformation of the character “Diablo de Lata” is developed, which belongs to the Riobamba popular festivities. This scenic construction study had been created in based on the creation processes and the “Hijos del Sur” theater group methodology. It is used as the working line, some native experimentation tools, field research, the theatrical anthropology of director Eugenio Barba and the Yuyachkani theater group, relating the character, Diablo de Lata, with other characters that are present in the Andean imaginary and in the plays of the Hijos del Sur group.