Women from the South in the Costa Rican theatrical endeavour (1970-1990)

Abstract

The present research identifies and systematizes the contributions of three Chilean women: Carmen Bunster, Sara Astica and Belgica Castro, and three Argentinians: Haydee Lev, Gladys Catania and Ana María Barrionuevo, in three fundamental decades for Costa Rican performing arts: 1970-1990. Acting, theater education and dissemination of theatrical work together with cinema, radio or trade union activities, define the work of these women who arrived to this country, because of voluntary migration or political exile. The Review of the theater and cultural context in those thirty years evidence a road from professionalization of
the theatre during the 1970s to commercial and light theater in the 90s, going by the questions of a 1980s theater in search of its identity.