Phenomenology and theater: The Brothers Karamazov

The concepts of perception and corporeality in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty have influenced studies on the philosophy of theater. The idea of embodied consciousness is relevant to understand the corporeal and expressive experience in the theatrical context, especially to investigate the relationship between the spectator and the play. Thus, the objective of this article is to show how the phenomenal field is configured in a theatrical work in two moments: first, the understanding of the stage as the articulating nucleus of the experience in which space, time and movement intervene; second, the relationship between the actor and the spectator in terms of gestures and words. It is shown that in theater there is a generative configuration of collective senses.