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Gabriela Roepke

Personal information
Surname: Roepke
First name: Gabriela
Born: 1920, Santiago, Chile
Biography

Gabriela Roepke was born in Santiago in 1920 and was a co-founder of the Teatro de Ensayo theatre company at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. Her own formation as a playwrigh... (Read more...)

Themes

Persistent themes in the work of Gabriela Roepke are those of solitude, youth, memory and time. She explores the internal and ‘spiritual’ experience of the individual in the context of... (Read more...)

Style

Stylistically, Gabriela Roepke’s theatre defies easy classification. It is often described as ‘psychological drama’ while also being absurd, fantastic and comedic. And perhaps unsurpri... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Other works
  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1954. La invitación (The Invitation) (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1955. Los culpables (The Guilty), later titled Juegos silenciosos (Silent Games), 1959 (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1955. Las santas mujeres (The Holy Women) (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1957. Los peligros de la buena literatura (The Dangers of Good Literature). In Apuntes 18 (1961), 24-40 (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1964. El bien fingido (The Feigned Interest) (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1965. Un castillo sin fantasmas (A Castle Without Ghosts) (in Spanish)

  • Roepke, Gabriela. 1965. Martes 13 (Tuesday, the 13th) (in Spanish)

Useful reading and websites
  • Bello, Andrés. 1982. El teatro chileno de mediados del siglo XX, pp.163-72. Santiago, Andrés Bello (in Spanish)

  • Ehrmann, Hans. 1970. ‘Theatre in Chile: A Middle-Class Conundrum’, Drama Review, 77 – 86

  • Knapp Jones, Willis. 1961. ‘Chile’s Dramatic Renaissance’. Hispania, 44.1, 89 - 94

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 5 October 2010.

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