María Asunción Requena: Éxito e historia del teatro

• Juan Villegas ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California System

     University of California System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 28, Nº. 2, 1995, págs. 19-37
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The author suggests that the writing of a theatre history requires study of the context in which a play is staged. One source of potential materials to understand this context may be critical reviews of performed texts published in newspapers. Critical reviews in newspapers most often favor plays staged in major cities. Performances in provinces are given less attention. The reviews usually supply dates, places, theatre groups, actors and actresses, interviews of actual spectators;—recording some of the audience's reactions—, and information about the success or failure of the show. They also provide the interpretation of the play implied in its different stagings. These critical reviews, however, supply very little material regarding the technical aspects of the presentation. The reconstruction of the socio-historical context of plays staged in the past is especially difficult because the newspaper's writer assumes an implied reader, one who was familiar with the political, social and cultural connotations of the event. One function of the theatre historian is to reconstruct that implied reader. This essay is based on the analysis of critical reviews published in Chilean newspapers of María Asunción Requena's performed texts.