"Copi" (2017-2018, stage by Di Fonzo Bo) is burning

  • Ezequiel Lozano
Keywords: Copi, gender, image, staging, Di Fonzo Bo

Abstract

The following essay focuses on Marcial Di Fonzo Bo’s staging entitled "Copi" (2017-2018), presented at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes and conceived as a posthumous tribute to the author mentioned in the title. The texts that composed it (two complete works, "Eva Perón" and "El homosexual o la dificultad de expresarse", together with other fragments of Copi’s varied creations as writer, perfomer and strip cartoonist) are studied here in order to reflect on this theatrical unit on the basis of a reading of images supported by conceptualizations of Georges Didi-Huberman. The article explores Copi’s links with the Creole archive, with the history of drag performances in the country, with the questioning of fixed identities and, also, with the history of Eva Perón, a textuality which was prohibited for many years in Argentina.

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Published
2019-11-01
How to Cite
Lozano, E. (2019). "Copi" (2017-2018, stage by Di Fonzo Bo) is burning. Telondefondo. Revista De Teoría Y Crítica Teatral, (30), 143-157. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/telondefondo/article/view/7252
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