Griselda Gambaro

Griselda Gambaro (born July 24, 1928) is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their bodies and memorialize them. Her novel Ganarse la muerte was banned by the government because of the obvious political message. Gambaro is Argentina's most celebrated playwright, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, as well as many other prizes.

As Michelene Wandor drama critic for Time Out magazine wrote in her preview, "Considered one of Gambaro`s masterpieces the play belongs to, " the school of allegorical theatre of oppression, written in a society in which brutality and censorship suppress democracy and the imagination ... (the play) draws political parallels by reference to Nazi concentration camps...the theatre of the absurd and the horrors on inner nightmare". The performance was warmly received by the critics of Spare Rib,., Ann Morey of BBC Latin American Service, now BBC Mundo, and Tom Vaughan of The Morning Star,

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