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Alejandro Urdapilleta (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1954 – Buenos Aires, 2013) was a radiant light in the theatre scene that emerged following Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983. He was one member of a memorable trio, with Batato Barea and Humberto Tortonese. At once monstrous and poetic, his acting was extraordinarily powerful, inspiring laughter and terror in large and equal doses. In 1991, he played Polonius in director Ricardo Bartís’s version of Hamlet, prompting Batato Barea to say ‘Traitor. This is the kind of theatre we swore we’d never do.’ Urdapilleta carried on regardless, staging everything from Thomas Bernhard’s Almuerzo en casa de Ludwig W. [Lunch at Ludwig W.’s], directed by Roberto Villanueva, to King Lear or Mein Kampf, directed by Jorge Lavelli, in the San Martín Theatre’s Martín Coronado Hall. He wrote and drew and worked in film and television and across all the theatre circuits. As the author Liliana Viola puts it, ‘His arrival at the San Martín Theatre or the Cervantes Theatre after Parakultural or Ave Porco did not institutionalise queerness. Nor did he sell-out by moving into television. He took his luminous, incendiary and even scorching fire onto every board he trod.’ The more than sixty notebooks he left behind, kept by his friends Rita Cortese, Horacio Dabbah, Alejandra Flechner and Cecilia Roth, contain drawings, thoughts, performance notes and even shopping lists. To read them is to see him acting in other ways.] A special thank you to Liliana Viola and Horacio Dabbah for their collaboration on this section.