1st Edition
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater Upstaging Dictatorship
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Carlos Manuel Varela and the Duty to Remember
Chapter Two: Boal and Guarnieri: Historical Allegory and the Duty to Inspire
Chapter Three: Griselda Gambaro: Abstract Allegory and the Duty to Conceal
Chapter Four: Juan Radrigán and the Duty to Tell
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ana Elena Puga teachs in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University and recently published an anthology of translations of works by the Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán, Finished from the Start and Other Plays.
'Surveying recent productions of the plays in Italy, Argentina, Chile and the US, she persuasively demonstrates how culturally aware theatre practitioners imaginatively avoid folkloric and dehistoricized productions, and instead challenge non-Latin American audiences to think more politically about this region' – Theatre Research International
'In addition to the wealth of details that emerge from close reading, the specific performance details that emerge from her individual interviews are especially valuable' – Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Theatre Review
