Gabriela Roepke
Gabriela Roepke (1920 in Santiago – November 2013) was a Chilean Dramatist and playwright, theater actress, poet, essay writer and professor of theater. Roepke studied theater in University of Paris (La Sorbonne) and university of North Carolina. She founded Teatro de Ensayo (the Theatre School of the Catholic University of Chile).
Gabriela Roepke
- Name
- Gabriela Roepke
- Born
- 1920
- Birthplace
- Santiago
- Died
- 2013
- Education
- * University of Paris (La Sorbonne)
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Nationality
- Chile
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Spanish
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In 1966 while Roepke was at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Roepke's plays are often described as ‘psychological drama’. They are also absurd, fantastic and comedic.
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• Name — Gabriela Roepke • Born — 1920 • Birthplace — Santiago • Died — 2013 • Education — * University of Paris (La Sorbonne) • University of North Carolina • Genre — Theatre (psychological drama) • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship
Plays
Plays
• 1954. La invitación (The Invitation) (in Spanish) • 1955. Los culpables (The Guilty), later titled Juegos silenciosos (Silent Games), 1959 (in Spanish) • 1955. Las santas mujeres (The Holy Women) (in Spanish) • 1957. Los peligros de la buena literatura (The Dangers of Good Literature). In Apuntes 18 (1961), 24-40 (in Spanish) • 1958. La telaraña (The web) (in Spanish) • 1959. Juegos silenciosos (Silent games) (in Spanish) • 1959. Una Mariposa Blanca (A white butterfly) (in Spanish) • 1964. El bien fingido (The Feigned Interest) (in Spanish) • 1965. Un castillo sin fantasmas (A Castle Without Ghosts) (in Spanish) • 1965. Martes 13 (Tuesday, the 13th) (in Spanish)
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Poem
• Primeras canciones (First songs) (1944) • Jardín solo (1947)
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1920
Gabriela Roepke born at Santiago.
2013
Gabriela Roepke died.
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- 1.Mackeith, Gwendolen. Gabriela Roepke. Out of the Wings. October 5, 2010.
- 2.Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Gabriela Roepke (1920-2013). Memoria Chilena.
- 3.Oxford University Press. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. 2003. 9780198601746.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Bello, Andrés. 1982. El teatro chileno de mediados del siglo XX, pp. 163–72. Santiago, Andrés Bello (in Spanish)
- Ehrmann, Hans. 1970. ‘Theatre in Chile: A Middle-Class Conundrum’, Drama Review, 77 – 86
- Knapp Jones, Willis. 1961. ‘Chile’s Dramatic Renaissance’. Hispania, 44.1, 89 - 94
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Gabriela Roepke is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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