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Guillermo Calderón, a political dramatist

  Guillermo Calderón is a Chilean dramatist dedicated to political drama. The most distinguished writing of his are Escuela, Villa, Discurso, Clase and Mateluna. He studied teatro in Universidad de Chile and then he completed a Master in New York.
  Escuela and Mateluna are two works related to the guerrilla groups during the dictatorial regime in Chile. The first of them narrates how operated some of the guerrilla groups to fight the oppression, his strategies and the risk of participate in this groups. With the goal of collect documents to complete the first step of the dramaturgic investigation, Guillermo Calderón and his company interviewed ex frontier called Jorge Mateluna. He delivered information about the techniques and the political scene of the military dictatorship from a struggling perspective.
  After of the premiere of “Escuela”, Jorge Mateluna was unfairly arrested, perhaps to sentence his past like a member of FPMR (He was accused of being guilty of bank assault).  Guillermo Calderón couldn’t stay in calm with that injustice and in his way he materialized his anger in a play: Mateluna. In Mateluna, Calderón reveals the arbitrary of the Chilean legal system and proves the innocence of Jorge Mateluna

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