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The Colombian New Theatre and Bertolt Brecht: A Dialectical Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Beatriz J. Rizk
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The struggle to eradicate naturalism from the theatre (or its satiric counterpart, the comedy of manners strongly rooted in the Latin American dramatic tradition and still very much alive), led the Colombian New Theatre forerunners consciously to seek new approaches to reality in their work. At the same time, there was the need, from the very beginning, to turn their practice into a functional system flexible enough to adapt to the needs and challenges of every new play.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 131 - 141
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1989

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