Post-dictatorship Chilean theatre and the political imperative

This chapter examines how Ictus’s Esto (no) es un testamento problematises the imperative that theatre be politically urgent and implicitly challenges the assumptions undergirding a valorisation of political theatre. By employing and contesting a sense of nostalgia for the company’s history, the play asserts the continued relevance of the company in the Chilean post-dictatorship theatrical landscape.