Raul Salmon: Playwright of the Bolivian people.

Title: Raul Salmon: Playwright of the Bolivian people.
Identifier: AAI9207105
identifier: 9207105
Creator: Mollinedo, Maria Teresa.
Contributor: Adviser: Stanley A. Waren
Date: 1991
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, Latin American | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies | Theater | History, Latin American
Abstract: This study examines three broad categories of Raul Salmon's playwriting--plays of social realism, historical plays, and those containing universal themes. Generally, the Bolivian playwright writes about Bolivian problems and customs. His themes are indigenous even though he uses such European forms an styles as realism, melodrama, expressionism, and most recently absurdism. Salmon's plays are popular with the "masses", making him a populist playwright, who founded his Theatre of Social Protest in 1943.;From interviews with Salmon, Julio de La Vega, a Bolivian critic, and Agar Delos, a leading actress in Salmon's theatre group, analysis of the plays and other theoretical writings, the study provides insights in influences on Salmon's thinking and the principles and techniques he uses in writing his plays. To a lesser degree it reveals the approach Salmon used to acting and directing. The entire study is related to the social and political history of Bolivia.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.