The political poetics of Eduardo Pavlovsky and Mauricio Kartun, between centuries: from the micropolitics of resistance to a new alternative macropolitical discussion

Abstract

The dramatic production of Eduardo Pavlovsky and Mauricio Kartun is comparatively analyzed in the passage between the XX and XXI centuries. The objective is to confront their political poetics in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first of the twenty-first century from theoretical and methodological coordinates linked to the relationship between macropolitics and micropolitics, within the framework of a periodization of Argentine theater in Postdictatorship 1983-2017). From diverse poetics, Pavlovsky and Kartun make, between centuries, the passage of a micropolitics of resistance to a progressive reconsideration of the power of the macropolitic alternative to neoliberalism. In Pavlovsky’s case, it is considered the arc from Rojos globos rojos (1994) to Variaciones Meyerhold (2005); as for Kartun, from Desde la lona (1997) to El Niño Argentino (2006).