Historical Significance

Historical Significance:

Since the play was written in 1972, the it was written by Griselda Gambaro to predict Argentina’s Dirty war

• The Dirty War:
• 1976-1983
• Close to 30,000 people went missing
• Kidnapped by Argentina's dictatorship
• Tortured
• Killed
• People were angry and revolted
• Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was created
• Held peaceful vigils for their lost children
• desaparecidos
• Dirty War ended when Raul Alfonsin became president in 1983.
• instilled democracy
• Play was written to raise awareness for bystanders.
• You can't sit back and relax 
• Mimics the way Argentines were the audience to crimes
• Themes suggest that the audience are like the soldiers

• Environmental theatre was new
• term coined in 1968
• great example of environmental theatre
• Also uses Brect's techniques
• "Brechtian “alienation” or distancing as much as, once again, an attempt to provide an interactive commentary on the reaction of a passive audience to the political spectacle of arrest and torture." 

• Works Cited:
•  Burns, Selena. “Accusing and Engaging the Audience through Theatreform: Griselda Gambaro's Information for Foreigners.” Platform, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, pp. 38–52.
• Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Dirty War.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 17 Jan. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/Dirty-War.