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Roberto Villanueva Theatre Director
From him I learned to see dramatic functions where everyone saw just stories. It was a new time in my life, I was just seventeen when a new world opened before my eyes. I experienced THEATRE, what it can BE, and have to say that I loved it and that I didn't have many more occasions to rediscover it in the rest of my life. I then met interesting people, lived interesting new experiences and found a first "path" in my reading. My adult life had begun. The time had come to know Nietszche, Artaud, Raymond Russell, Rimbaud, Propp, Lévy-Strauss, Wittgestein, Moles, Deleuze, Sollers, Proust, Derrida, Bataille, Klossowski,... so many things to be thankful for. So I remember him; A chair, a table, some books: a sacred space.

ROBERTO VILLANUEVA

Born in Córdoba/Argentina around 70 years ago, and formed in Buenos Aires (first in Architecture) he stood out being a very important piece in the 60's cultural puzzle in Buenos Aires as director of a unique institution: the Instituto Di Tella, a Center of Artistic Research and Audiovisual Experimentation from which many important artists emerged.From that time on we can find him staging over one hundred plays: Lope de Vega, Shakespeare,Thomas Bernhard, Alfred Jarry, Peter Handke, Carlos Trías, Edward Albee, Copi, Eduardo Griffero, Jorge Plante, Eduardo Pavlosky, Alejandro Tantanian...
From the period between 1978/1993 he staged & directed many great texts in Europe (Madrid - Paris)

LA PIRAMIDE (by Copi). LAS PERSONAS NO RAZONABLES ESTÁN EN VIAS DE EXTINCIÓN (by Peter Handke). MINETTI (by Thomas Bernhard). Prize ACE* 1999 to BEST SPECTACLE LA REINA DE LA NOCHE (by Thomas Bernhard). ALMUERZO EN CASA DE LUDWIG W. (by Thomas Bernhard; Teatro San Martín - 1999) Awarded with: Prize Trinidad Guevara and Prize ACE* 2000 to BEST DIRECTOR. EL JUEGO DEL BEBÉ (by Edward Albee; Teatro Maipo - 2000) AMANDA Y EDUARDO (by Armando Discépolo; Teatro General San Martín - 2001).

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