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Lo crudo, lo cocido y lo podrido (c.1978), Marco De la Parra

Titles
English title: The Raw, the Cooked and the Rotten
Date written: c. 1978
First production date: 30 June 1978
Keywords: identity > class/social standing, identity > class/social standing, history > change/revolution, history > modernity, ideology > politics, power > inter-personal/game play
Pitch

The staff of ‘The Immortals’ restaurant have formed a secret brotherhood of waiters immersing themselves in a glorious past and playing out the absurd rituals and customs of a bygone era of oligarchs.  First performed and banned in 1978, Lo crudo, lo cocido y lo podrido can be read as a political allegory for the Chilean dictatorship (1973 – 1990).

Synopsis

‘In El Restorán de los Inmortales, a typical old restaurant of Santiago, in former days the meeting place for the oligarchy, three waiters (Elías Reyes, Efraín Rojas and Evaristo Romer... (Read more...)

Critical response

In 1979 Lo crudo, lo cocido y lo podrido won shared first prize at New York’s Theater of Latin America competition. Marco Antonio de la Parra is considered to be one of Chile’s most out... (Read more...)

Editions
  • Parra, Marco Antonio de la. 1983. Lo crudo, lo cocido y lo podrido. Santiago, Nascimento

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 28 March 2012.

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