Osvaldo dragun biography channel

Osvaldo Dragún (b. 7 May 1929, d. 14 June 1999), Argentine playwright, achieved international status with his Historias para ser contadas (1957), a group of brief and dehumanizing vignettes that capture a pithy social reality with sparse language, minimal plot and scenery, and often grotesque elements.

Dragún, a native of San Salvador, Entre Ríos, lacked formal training in the theater but learned quickly by acting, directing, and writing for community theater groups. His career was launched with the independent group Fray Mocho in 1956 and the production of two historical plays that underscored individual and political freedom, La peste viene de Melos (1956) and Tupac Amaru (1957).

The writers of Dragún's generation (including Roberto Cossa, Carlos Gorostiza, and Ricardo Halac) sought to interpret an Argentine reality that was chaotic under Juan Perón but even more anarchic after his demise. This "new realism" found expression in the aesthetic