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- Title
Chilean Theatre in the Days and Nights of Pinochet.
- Authors
Epstein, Susana; Watson, Ian
- Abstract
This article presents an interview with Hector Noguera, professor in the theater department of Santiago's Catholic University, about the Chilean theater in the regime of General Augusto Pinochet. In citing the main differences between the two periods in Chilean history for him and for his colleagues, Noguera said the most important difference, he would say, is that prior to Pinochet there was a staff of actors. Meanwhile, when asked whether his work is censored, Noguera responded that at the university, well, censorship in Chile is indirect. In the first years of the rule of Pinochet it was much more difficult. They did not dare to do Chilean or Latin American plays. They only did the classics because with the classics one can say a lot of things indirectly. For instance, when they did Hamlet the main thing they underlined was the relationship between Hamlet and Claudius, the king who killed to make himself king. This was the sort of thing that the audience could read. Moreover, on a question whether censors see all plays before they open, Noguera answered no. Nothing is so established. There is no group of censors. But of course at the university one has to send the play to someone who reads and approves it. And if whoever reads it does not like it, he recommends they do not do it because it could be dangerous. He thinks it is a marvelous play but you had better not do it. It could be dangerous for one. Those are the sort of things that are said.
- Subjects
CHILE; NOGUERA, Hector; COLLEGE teachers; THEATER education; DRAMA; ACTING; PINOCHET Ugarte, Augusto, 1915-2006
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1990, Vol 34, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.2307/1146008