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 In
1930, the foundation of the Theater of the People gave rise to the
Independent Theater, an artistic movement seeking to fight against
commercial theater. As
a part of this process quite a few new playwrights emerged, giving dramatic
expression a formerly unseen style. We can mention some of them as an example:
Aurelio Ferreti, Carlos Gorostiza, Osvaldo Dragún, Andrés
Lizarraga and Agustín Cuzzani. |
 El Casamiento de laucha, (Laucha's wedding) performed by Teatro del Pueblo |
 Roberto Cossa, playwright. |
As
a consequence of this movement, three separate lines appeared in the 1930s.The
first one, known as social realism, is reflected in Soledad para
cuatro (Loneliness for Four) by Ricardo Halac, Nuestro fin de semana
(Our Weekend) and Los días de Julián Bisbal (Julián
Bisbal's days) by Roberto Cossa.The
second line, influenced by Ionesco's and Beckett's plays, has some exponents
as Eduardo Pavlosky and Griselda Gambaro, who jointly wrote
El desatino (The Nonsense) and then separately, she wrote Los
siameses (The Siamese Twins) whereas he wrote Espera Trágica
(Tragic Expectancy) and El señor Galíndez (Mr. Galíndez).
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third and last of these divisions comes from grotesque, with tragicomic
characters.La
fiaca (Languor) by Ricardo Talesnik (1967) and La valija (The
Suitcase) by Julio Mauricio (1968) are two characteristic examples of this
style.In
1980, when the military government started to loosen the pressures exerted,
playwrights such as Carlos Gorostiza, Osvaldo Dragún, Roberto
Cossa and Carlos Somigliana, who in turn counted on the support
from other playwrights and other theater people, initiated the performances
of Teatro Abierto (Open Theater). |
 Julio Mauricio, playwright. |
 Eduardo Rouner, contemporary playwright. |
Teatro
Abierto started its activities on July, 28, 1981. This move achieved
a degree of continuity and in 1982, new dramatists, directors and actors
were added.Nowadays,
theater is an activity with a normal development. During the weekends, in
Buenos Aires there are about 80 shows staged in different theaters.The
theatrical activity developed inland is also remarkable, in cities such
as Córdoba, Tucumán, Santa Fe, Rosario, La Plata, Mendoza,
Mar del Plata, etc. On the other hand, new dramatists emerged recently:
Carlos Pais, Mauricio Kartun, Daniel Veronese, Enrique Morales, Eduardo
Rovner and Roberto Perinelli are only some of them. |
| Osvaldo Calatayud |
| The photographs in this article have been kindly granted by the National Institute for the Study of Theater (INET) |
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