Information for Foreigners

Information for Foreigners (Información para extranajeros)

    Author: Griselda Gambaro

    First Performance: No Argentinian production (premiered 1978 in Spain)

    Published: 1975 (in Italian trans.); 1987 (in Spanish)

    First English Translation: 1989

    Genre: Drama in 20 scenes; Spanish prose and some free verse

    Setting: Spacious residential house, Argentina, 1971

    Cast: c.50m, 15f, children

A Guide or Guides lead the spectators from room to room in a house. A Girl drenched in cold water is observed by a Man (is he an interrogator!). A Coordinator shows how learning can be accelerated by administering increasingly severe electric shocks for wrong answers. When the Pupil associates prison with nation, the strength of the resulting shock kills him. A Father and Mother discuss the cases...

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