The Unrepresentable on Stage: The Forgotten in Latin American Southern Cone Post-dictatorship Dramaturgy.
Abstract
This paper analyzes the fractures in dictatorships in Argentina ( 1976-1983), Chile (1973-1990) and Uruguay (1973-1985), which are manifested in the post-dictatorship period as a set of practices of exclusion, marginalization, and degradation. Taking into account the concept of the unrepresentable, the post-dictatorship theater rejects oblivion through the representation of the horrors of the past and the trauma that still persists. This theater does not seek the normalization of the traumatic memory, but rather tries to create spaces that provide alternatives in order to recognize the traumatizing effect of the victims through fragmentation. The plays included in this study respond to the complexity of representing the unrepresentable in the characters identified as the forgotten. These scenarios are identified through the displacement produced by exile, human degradation in an alternative reality and the existential limits that lead to suicide.
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