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JUAN RADRIGAN (1937 - ) |
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Nationality: Chilean Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Juan Radrigan was born in Antofagasta, Chile, in January 1937. He never went to school; from a very young age he had to work. He has written 42 plays. For many years he was a textile worker and became the president of several trade unions. In 1980 he wrote his first play, Testimonio de las muertes de Sabina. His plays have been performed in communities traditionally seen as marginal, as well as in professional theatres. In October 2011 he was awarded the National Prize for the Performing Arts in Chile.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Juan Radrigan
Beasts (Las Brutas) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 30 Aug 2011 | ||||
Organisations: | Head For Heights | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131119 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
Synopsis: | Chile, 1974. In the extreme isolation of the Andean foothills, three sisters are found hanged from a rock, their animals slaughtered beside them... Justa, Lucia and Luciana are three Coya (indigenous Andean) sisters, and the last remnants of a large family who tried to survive in an inhospitable environment. Parents, siblings and neighbours have either died or fled the challenging landscape to find work in distant towns. Faced with ageing bodies, loneliness, and terror of unknown forces which seem to be closing in on them, the sisters make a decision which shocks a nation. Against the backdrop of the Pinochet regime's ascent to power, internationally-acclaimed playwright Juan Radrigan examines, movingly and at times humorously, the effect of isolation and fear on the human spirit. With poignant echoes of the 2010 Chilean miners' crisis and resonance with marginalised communities worldwide, Beasts is a haunting portrayal of love, fear and impossible choices | |||||
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Beasts, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Finished From the Start and Other Plays" published by Northwestern University Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78034 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
Synopsis: | Three sisters abandoned in the forest seek escape. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Children Of Fate | ||
| 1st Produced: | CLF Art Cafe, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, London SE15 4ST | 29 Oct 2013 | ||||
Organisations: | Inside Intelligence | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1783190737 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #156676 | |||
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Genre: | Translation/Adaption 65 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
| From multi-award-winning Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan comes the UK premiere of his heart-rending classic Children of Fate. Translated and directed by Robert Shaw, Children of Fate exposes with tenderness, humour and infinite love the devastating effects of Thatcherite ideology on the forgotten lives of millions dispossessed and brutalised by years of the Pinochet dictatorship. Much like Las Brutas, Radrigan's powerful play that received critical acclaim at Theatre503 in September 2011, Children of Fate speaks not only for the marginalised and oppressed in Chile but represents communities all over the world who are struggling against the odds to survive. | |||||
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Finished From the Start | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Finished From the Start and Other Plays" published by Northwestern University Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78035 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
Synopsis: | The victims of a military dictatorship - the disappeared | |||||
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Funeral Drums | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Finished From the Start and Other Plays" published by Northwestern University Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78036 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
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Testimonies to the Death of Sabina | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Finished From the Start and Other Plays" published by Northwestern University Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78037 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Juan Radrigan | |||||
Synopsis: | A fruit seller has been accused of an infraction that may cost her livelihood | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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