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Los invasores (1962), Égon Wolff

Titles
English title: The Invaders
Date written: 1962
First production date: 1962
Keywords: violence > social, identity > class/social standing, identity > hierarchy, history > change/revolution, ideology > morality, ideology > politics, power > inter-personal/game play, Social > Hierarchy
Pitch

Class war is played out in a dream-like sequence in the home of an indifferent bourgeois family.  Guilt and fear govern this surreal encounter between a rich Chilean industrialist and a workers’ uprising.

Synopsis

‘As the play begins, Lucas Meyer and his wife arrive home from a party and begin to talk animatedly of their happiness and of the role wealth has played in bringing it about. Pietá, Mey... (Read more...)

Critical response

Los invasores is considered to be one of Égon Wolff’s masterpieces. 

Editions
  • Wolff, Egon. 1964. Los invasores. In Teatro hispanoamericano contemporáneo, ed. Carlos Solórzano. México, Colección popular

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