Gregor Díaz: la dramaturgia del marginado en la ciudad. Una aproximación a las renovaciones estéticas e ideológicas en la escritura dramática peruana de las décadas de 1960 a 1990

Abstract

During the 1960s emerged a generation of dramatic authors in Peru whose proposal displayed, for the first time in the center of the Peruvian scene, the socially marginalized character. The arrival of the marginal universe in the Peruvian theater led to the inclusion of new characters, new spaces, new problems, and, above all, new points of view that distanced from the bourgeois conventions to which the Peruvian scene had been accustomed. Proposing this shift meant that authors such as Hernando Cortes (1928-2011), Juan Rivera Saavedra (1930-2021), Víctor Zavala Cataño (1932-2021), Sara Joffré (1935-2014), César Vega Herrera (1936) and Gregor Díaz, whom we consider the most representative author of that generation, developed a dramaturgy in which formal, aesthetic and ideological important innovations stood out. This dramaturgical revolution stems from the same expressive need that prompted them to break with the hegemonic model and raise their voices on behalf of the social strata that had been vaguely represented in the Peruvian theater until then. In this sense, the present investigation proposes an analysis of the dramatic pieces of the aforementioned authors –and mainly those of Díaz– with the aim of contrasting their dramaturgy, identifying their influences and comparing their proposals. In this sense, both the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s epic theater, and the inclusion of some elements from the Peruvian Andean tradition stood out above everything. The historical context in which the works were written is also studied, in order to establish relationships between the innovations to the scenic language proposed by the authors and the development of political and social events that occurred in the country during the years in which those were written.

Date of Award	21 Dec 2022
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Francesc Foguet Boreu (Director)