Radrigán antes de Radrigán Breves notas introductorias sobre los antecedentes literarios de un clásico del teatro chileno

Abstract

In 1979, Juan Radrigan premiered his first play: Testimonio de las muertes de Sabina [Testimony of Sabina’s Many Deaths]. In 1980, he organized his own theatrical troupe, the Teatro Popular El Telón [The Curtain Popular Theatre]. And in 1981 his work Hechos consumados [When All is Said and Done] received the Critics Play of The Year Award. Soon Radrigan became the main playwright emerged during the dictatorship and since then has been known as “the playwright of the outcasts”. Until now, the novels, short stories, and poetry that Radrigan wrote before he started producing theatre, have not been studied. From a first glance to these materials, this paper proposes innovative approaches to rethink Radrigan’s theatre and, at once, the chilean theatrical field during the post-coup years.

Chilean theatre, Theatre and politics, Dictatorship, Gustavo Meza, Juan Radrigán