Acerca de lo político y lo histórico en el teatro documental contemporáneo: algunas experiencias de Argentina y Chile

• Autores: Pamela Brownell
• Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 52, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 43-64
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay approaches the political and historical dimensions of three contemporary experiences of documentary theatre: one from Chile—Ñi pu tremen. Mis antepasados—and the other two from Argentina—Archivo White and Las personas. All three of them brought to the stage not professional actors but rather members of a certain community: respectively, women of mapuche origin, neighbors of the city of Ingeniero White, and workers of the Teatro San Martín of Buenos Aires. After an initial description of these projects, the essay examines in each of them the relation between art and politics on the basis of theories proposed by Jacques Rancière and discusses the possibility of considering these practices as a particular historiographical form enriched by characteristics specific to theatre