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Osvaldo Dragún

Personal information
Surname: Dragún
First name: Osvaldo
Pseudonyms: 'Chacho'
Born: 1929, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Died: 14 June 1999
Biography

Osvaldo Dragún was born in 1929 in Entre Ríos, Argentina, and died on 14 June 1999. His family exchanged a rural way of life for an urban one when they moved to Buenos Aires in 1944. Or... (Read more...)

Themes

Osvaldo Dragún is primarily concerned with crafting a theatre which depicts an Argentine national reality and engages with the socio-political concerns of his time. His theatre describe... (Read more...)

Style

Stylistically, the theatre of Osvaldo Dragún moves away from naturalism. Time is not represented sequentially, it is disrupted and fragmentary. The present is often juxtaposed with flas... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Other works
  • Dragún, Osvaldo. 1947. El gran duque ha desaparecido (The Great Duke has Disappeared) (in Spanish)

  • Dragún, Osvaldo. 1956. La peste viene de Melos (The Plague Comes from Melos) (in Spanish)

  • Dragún, Osvaldo. 1957. Historias para ser contadas (Stories to be Told) (in Spanish)

  • Dragún, Osvaldo. 1957. Historia de un flemón, una mujer, y dos hombres, (The History of a Gumboil, a Woman, and Two Men) (in Spanish)

  • Dragún, Osvaldo. 1963. Y nos dijieron que éramos inmortales (And They Told Us We Were Immortal) (in Spanish)

Useful reading and websites
  • Crew Leonard, Candyce. 1983. ‘Dragún’s Distancing Techniques in Historias para ser contadas and El amasijo’, Latin American Theatre Review, 16.2, 37-42

  • De la campa, Roman. 1977. ‘Interview with the Argentinian dramaturge Osvaldo Dragún’, Latin American Theatre Review, 15.3, 35-41

  • Gladhart, Amalia. 1993. ‘Narrative Foreground in the Plays of Osvaldo Dragún’, Latin American Theatre Review, 26.2, 93-109

  • Schmidt, Donald L. 1969. ‘El teatro de Osvaldo Dragún’, Latin American Theatre Review, 2. 2, 3-20

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

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