Gabriela Roepke

Gabriela Roepke (1920 in Santiago – November 2013) was a Chilean Dramatist and playwright, theater actress, poet, essay writer and professor of theater.[1]

Gabriela Roepke
Born1920 (1920)
Santiago
Died2013(2013-00-00) (aged 92–93)
Alma mater
GenreTheatre (psychological drama)
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Gabriela Roepke studied theater in University of Paris (La Sorbonne) and university of North Carolina. She founded Teatro de Ensayo (the Theatre School of the Catholic University of Chile).[2][3]

in 1966 while Roepke was at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]

Roepke's plays are often described as ‘psychological drama’. They are also absurd, fantastic and comedic.[1]

Works

Plays

  • 1954. La invitación (The Invitation) (in Spanish)
  • 1955. Los culpables (The Guilty), later titled Juegos silenciosos (Silent Games), 1959 (in Spanish)
  • 1955. Las santas mujeres (The Holy Women) (in Spanish)
  • 1957. Los peligros de la buena literatura (The Dangers of Good Literature). In Apuntes 18 (1961), 24-40 (in Spanish)
  • 1958. La telaraña (The web) (in Spanish)[2]
  • 1959. Juegos silenciosos (Silent games) (in Spanish)[2]
  • 1959. La mariposa blanca (A white butterfly) (in Spanish)[2]
  • 1964. El bien fingido (The Feigned Interest) (in Spanish)
  • 1965. Un castillo sin fantasmas (A Castle Without Ghosts) (in Spanish)
  • 1965. Martes 13 (Tuesday, the 13th) (in Spanish)[1]

Poem

  • Primeras canciones (First songs) (1944)
  • Jardín solo (1947)[2]

References

  1. Mackeith, Gwendolen (October 5, 2010). "Gabriela Roepke". Out of the Wings. Archived from the original on April 29, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. "Gabriela Roepke (1920-2013)". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  3. Kennedy, Dennis, ed. (2003). "Roepke, Gabriela". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198601746.

Further reading

  • Bello, Andrés. 1982. El teatro chileno de mediados del siglo XX, pp. 163–72. Santiago, Andrés Bello (in Spanish)
  • Ehrmann, Hans. 1970. ‘Theatre in Chile: A Middle-Class Conundrum’, Drama Review, 77 – 86
  • Knapp Jones, Willis. 1961. ‘Chile’s Dramatic Renaissance’. Hispania, 44.1, 89 - 94
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