Royal Court’s ‘New Plays from Chile’ featured in the Financial Times

Friday, 13 September 2013

The Financial Times has featured the Genesis Foundation-funded ‘New Plays from Chile’ at the Royal Court Theatre. Five plays have been selected for a series of readings in the week that marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup (11 September 1973) that overthrew Salvador Allende’s democratic government and submerged Chile into what has been called ‘the long dark night’.

The Royal Court has been working with emerging playwrights in Chile since April 2012. Over the last year UK playwrights Leo Butler and Nick Payne travelled to Santiago three times with the Royal Court’s International Director Elyse Dodgson to work with a group of 12 outstanding young writers on creating new plays inspired by contemporary Chile.

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To read more about the Genesis Foundation’s relationship with the Royal Court Theatre, please click here.