The Production of Theater: stakes and paradoxes

This text presents issues of Theatrical Genetics, in particular, in its relation with the analysis of living processes of creation. The text proposes the concept of trace – in its production and disappearance, both typical of the theatrical process –, in order to understand the genetic analysis of staging, taking into consideration the entire process prior to the presentation and, at the same time, considering the presentation as part of this process. The text proposes to restrict the field of action of Theatrical Genetics to the analysis of creative processes only to better empower it.