Worker and militant theater of the 60’s and 70’s in Chile: internationalist and anti-imperialist scenes building a new world

Abstract

 This article problematizes the practice of worker and militant theater of the 60s and 70s in Chile as part of the Popular Unity project. There are three central elements of this text: 1) the approach to internationalist and anti-imperialist theatrical political perspectives and constructions of the Latin American left - specifically Chilean - through the Cuban journal Conjunto; 2) the dispute over the conception of the National Popular Theater between the idea of a social pact and those that raise an antagonistic discourse; 3) the approach to the CUT theater and the New Popular Theater as Chilean militant scenes, whose practices ascribe to anti-imperialist theatrical policies of the Latin American left, and to the notion of class of a National Popular Theater.

The workers’ and militant theater during the Popular Unity, through the reconfiguration of the scenic productive modes and the ways of imagining, was an active part of the process of the working class that materially and subjectively threw itself towards the construction of a new world, of another possible life.