This collection of plays comes from one of Chile s finest voices of the voiceless: Juan Radrigan. A history marked by personal and political hardship has equipped Radrigan to tell the stories of those his nation left behind. Seven years old when his father abandoned his family, he was forced to work from an early age. As an adult, he worked as a manual laborer during a very dark time for Chile: the demise of Salvador Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. In a time of torture, exile, and political disappearances, his plays stood as quietly powerful anti-regime statements that...
This collection of plays comes from one of Chile s finest voices of the voiceless: Juan Radrigan. A history marked by personal and political hardsh...
Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and marginalised in General Pinochet's Chile. -The play offers a moving image of the desolation created by oppressive regimes. The two enforced vagabonds reminded me of the tragic itinerants in Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena.... It offers a potent reminder of the dangers of subordinating people to rigid political and economic systems.- - Guardian -Demonstrates the humour and love that can survive in the midst of the brutality...
Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and mar...
