Marco Antonio de la Parra, three decades of theatre, 1975-2006 (A general commentary apropos to Chile and its middle class in transition dictatorship/ postdictatorship, modernity/postmodernity)

Abstract

Marco Antonio de la Parra has celebrated during the 2006 Theatrical Season more than three decades as a playwright. In this period he has become one of the most important authors in Chilean Theatre History. This article offers a panoramic view of these thirty years of Marco Antonio de la Parra’s dramatic and theatrical production, from his first works, premiered in the late 70’s and early 80’s, some of which are already part of Chilean Theatre Classics and have become some of the most frequently staged Latin American plays world wide during the last decades, up to the author’s newest and lesser known plays, many of which still have only one or no stage version and/or remain unpublished, all of which have actively projected Marco Antonio de la Parra as a playwright and a cultural producer for the XXI century.