{"id":51893,"date":"2025-05-23T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/?p=51893"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:15:49","slug":"esto-es-teatro-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/esto-es-teatro-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Esto es Teatro 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"51893\" class=\"elementor elementor-51893\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e42d368 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e42d368\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b6f0f4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b6f0f4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-52101\" alt=\"V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda (San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, 1934 \u2013 Paris, France, 1982) was a genius who split the history of contemporary theatre in two. As Fernando Arrabal has remarked, \u2018The revolution in modern theatre was not made by Artaud, for all his merits, but by the Tucum\u00e1n-born V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda.\u2019\nThe monumental scale of his mises-en-sc\u00e8ne reconfigured the roles of spectator, theatre building and actor, sending a shockwave through the Western theatre and changing the nature of theatre forever.\nGarc\u00eda\u2019s remarkable talent is evident in the hangar of car chassis mounted high above the stage in El cementerio de autom\u00f3viles [Car Cemetery] (1966), the sloping stage that unsettles the actors in The Maids (1969), the 25-by-20-metre metal cylinder in The Balcony (1969) or the elastic tarpaulin that upends the actors in Yerma [Barren] (1971). His collaborations with Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Olivier, Nuria Espert, Ruth Escobar and Fernando Arrabal are memorable.\nAlthough two of his productions were staged in Buenos Aires \u2013 at the Astral Theatre and the now defunct Odeon Theatre \u2013 Garc\u00eda remains something of a secret in Argentinian theatre. Thanks to the collaboration of the Tucum\u00e1n researcher Juan Carlos Malc\u00fan, who has shared his archive with the Museo Moderno, Garc\u00eda is a secret that can now be revealed to our public.\n\u2018He was like a destructive flame that renewed everything,\u2019 remarked the great Spanish actress Nuria Espert. V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda died in August 1982, aged 48, and spent his last nights sleeping rough in the Paris M\u00e9tro.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-scaled.jpg 1560w, https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-768x1260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-936x1536.jpg 936w, https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-Victor-Garcia-1248x2048.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1560px) 100vw, 1560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51893"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52168,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893\/revisions\/52168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}