Alicia Moreau y Victoria Ocampo: ficciones históricas entre el recuerdo y lo posible

Rocío Villar

doi:10.69746/liminal.a63

Authors

Rocío Villar Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-7572

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69746/liminal.a63

Keywords:

Alicia Moreau, Victoria Ocampo, Feminismo, Eva Perón, Memoria, Historia, ficción

Abstract

This article proposes a comparative analysis of the plays Alicia Moreau: Late Dreams (Walter Operto, 2018) and Eva and Victoria (Mónica Ottino, 1992; adapted by Hugo Urquijo and Graciela Dufau, 2011) regarding the theatrical representation of historical figures linked to Argentine feminism. Starting from the intersection of history and fiction, the article examines how the plays construct the memories of Alicia Moreau and Victoria Ocampo in a dialogue —real or imagined— with Eva Perón, a figure who acts as a mirror and a political, ideological, and class counterpoint.

The relationship between memory and remembrance, understood as the play of dynamic processes mediated by interpretation, offers a symbolic space in theater where the possible and the imaginary allow for the rewriting of the antagonisms of the past. In this sense, Operto and Ottino's texts enable other possible dialogues between historical figures by recreating fictional encounters between these women, which never occurred in real life, but which allow us to rethink, from the present, the different ways of conceiving activism and feminism. Both pieces propose a symbolic reconciliation between historically conflicting positions and allow us to reflect, from the present, on the construction of a plural collective memory.

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Author Biography

Rocío Villar, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Graduate and Senior Professor of Arts from the University of Buenos Aires. She currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Universal Cinema Department of the Arts Program at the University of Buenos Aires. She completed four years of the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She studied acting at the Enrique Santos Discépolo Cultural Center, and later took classes at the Augusto Fernandes School and Cristian Drut's Studio. She participated in several plays as an actress and assistant director. She was co-host of the radio program Sonidos de luz, in charge of the theater section.For several years, she has been involved in theater criticism and research as a member of the Art Sciences Research Area (AICA), coordinated by Dr. Jorge Dubatti, at the Cultural Center of Cooperation, and as a jury member for the Teatro del Mundo Awards given by the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center at the University of Buenos Aires.

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