The soul, the eye, the hand or the use of the autobiography in the theater

The text establishes a connection between the figure of the narrator, according to Walter Benjamin, and actors/performers who create their own pieces from an autobiographical material; a connection between the experience shared by narrator/performer and listener/audience. In order to contextualize this discussion, I present the work of the american performer Spalding Gray, a reference when one thinks about the use of autobiography.