Juan Radrigán, veinticinco años de teatro, 1979 - 2004

(Un comentario general a propósito de marginalidad y memoria, dictadura, transición y postdictadura en Chile)

Abstract

Juan Radrigán has celebrated during the 2004 Theatrical Season twenty five years as a playwright. During this period he became one of the most important authors on Chilean Theatre history. This article offers a panoramic view about this twenty five years of Juan Radrigán’s dramatic and theatrical production, from his most emblematic plays premiered at the late 70’s and early 80’s, in which he fundamentally highlights exclusion in the context of authoritarianism –some of those works are already part of Chilean Theatre Classics–, until the author’s newest and least known plays, in which he mainly refers to memory in the context of democracy –works that have actively proyected Juan Radrigán as a playwright for the XXI century.