Mauricio Pesutić y Marengo, bocetos sobre una muerte: La continuidad de la incertidumbre, la espera y los silencios: La continuidad de la incertidumbre, la espera y los silencios

• Melissa González-Contreras ^[1]
  1. [1] California State University
• Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 58, Nº. 1, 2024-2025, págs. 37-60
• Idioma: español
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  • An important Chilean cultural figure, Mauricio Pesutić wrote Marengo, bocetos sobre una muerte in 1988. Marengo shares formal and thematic concerns present in a previous play by Pesutić: Antonio, Nosé, Isidro, Domingo (1984). This essay sheds light on the aesthetic value of both plays as artifacts that made visible and confronted the repressive tactics of Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian regime (1973-1990). The analysis of Marengo, bocetos sobre una muerte shows the play to be a thematic continuation of Antonio in its approach to the detained and disappeared of that historical period. It also underscores the use of motifs such as uncertainty, waiting, and silence to illustrate the formal continuity between the two works as well as the state of prolonged suspense that pertained not only to the detained and disappeared, but also to life under Pinochet's repressive state.