Chilean Theatre Awakes After A Long Sleep

“No one can underestimate the havoc wrought in Chile by the Pinochet military dictatorship from 1973 to 1990. ‘Culture,’ in the words of my dramatist friend Benjamin Galemiri, ‘was seen by Pinochet as an act of terrorism.’ Under the dual threat of state censorship and physical intimidation, many artists were silenced.” But now, Chilean theatre is reawakening…