Teatro: de Independiente a Alternativo. Una síntesis del camino del Teatro Independiente argentino hacia la condición de alternativo y otras cuestiones inevitables

Abstract

The article presents a synthesis of the argentine Independent Theatre path
toward the alternative condition and other inevitable issues. The subject of this paper will
record the Argentine Independent Theatre way -the one created by Leonidas Barletta in
1930- from the People’s Theater foundation to present. Along the way, the movement was
mutating since the acquisition of its present name: the alternative theater. In this journey
of eighty years the movement was growing and avoiding difficulties. Some situations generated almost humorous situations -clashes with the press who treated the independent
with a manifest contempt- but were much more serious conflicts with government that
used the governmental attribute of censorship, beloved and indispensable instrument of
facto governments in the twentieth century.