The plays of Ricardo Monti and the production of space.
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Title
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The plays of Ricardo Monti and the production of space.
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Identifier
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AAI3310758
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identifier
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3310758
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Creator
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Loayza, Milton.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Jean Graham-Jones
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Date
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2008
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | History, Latin American | Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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The plays of Argentine playwright Ricardo Monti (1944-- ) propose a spatial coincidence between theatre and history. I build a theoretical lens that shows how the plays produce a space where the forces of history can be felt in a way that reflects our utopian impulse, our resistance to power, and our historical emergence. In chapter one, I argue that the grotesco criollo's theatrical vision of 1920s River Plate and Monti's play, "Una noche con el sr. Magnus & hijos" (1970), represent a layering of the modern/postmodern local and global. In chapter two, a "tectonic" analysis of the dancers' historical-mythical-physical journey in " Marathon" (1980) is seen to embody the layered production of a global present. In chapter three I argue that the plays Historia tendenciosa... (1971) and "Visita" (1977) stimulate our intuition of a Foucauldian/Deleuzian diagram or location that maps the characters' relation to historical forces. In chapter four, I focus on how acting, directing, and design choices made in the Buenos Aires productions of "Una pasion sudamericana" (1989) and "La oscuridad de la razon" (1993) reflect the diagrammatic location and define a utopian practice. Monti's problematization of space may be used as a critical, ethical, and creative tool and has possible interdisciplinary applications in the study and practice of theatre and performance.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
