Angels in Labor; Art that won’t be quiet. (¡to be reinvented, once again!) ICTUS, TIT: Theatrical discourse in military dictatorship

Abstract

This paper analyses Pedro, Juan y Diego, Tres Marías y Una Rosa y Lindo país esquina con vista al mar, plays written by ICTUS, TIT and David Benavente, first staged during the years 1976 and 1979. Through these works, the Art of Theater is presented as a cathartic exercise that reconstitutes memory and transfers the expression of the Chilean people, deeply hurt by the violent dictatorship that took place from 1973 to 1990. This study reflects on the way these speeches are articulated from the dissident wing as a political weapon that regenerates silenced identities. It creates new expressive possibilities. In this, representations within the representation, along with new meanings emerged from seemingly unrelated lines, raise the voice of a people and an art that has been violently maimed.