ABSTRACT
The Argentine playwright, director, actor, and educator Claudio Tolcachir has made an indelible mark on twenty-first-century theatre in Buenos Aires through plays that explore relationships in crisis. In particular, Tolcachir’s significance for Argentine and Latin American theatre is anchored in the rapid ascent of Timbre 4, and the runaway success of his first original play, The Omission of the Coleman Family (2005). Tolcachir’s plays ask audiences to reflect on how theatre and family—in the broadest senses of each word—are mutually dependent and each offer relational possibilities for living through contemporary crises.
