Alonso Alegría

Alonso Alegría (born July 14, 1940 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Peruvian theater director , theater director , playwright and screenwriter .

Life

The son of the writer Ciro Alegría and the pianist Rosalia Amézquita grew up in Lima . From 1958 to 1962 he studied art history at the university there, then at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) . In 1964 he obtained his BA , 1966 his MA in Drama and Dramaturgy, and in 1967 his diploma in directing.

In 1968 Alegría took over the management of the Lima University Theater. In 1969, his play The Crossing of Niagara Falls ( El cruce sobre el Niágara ), which has been re-enacted in over 50 countries, premiered at the Premio Casa de las Américas . He was the founding director and from 1971 to 1978 chief director of the Teatro Nacional Popular in Lima. From 1979 to 1987 he was visiting professor for theater studies at various universities in the USA, and in 2006 at Middlebury College in Middlebury (Vermont) .

He also taught dramaturgy and directing at the private Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and led a private amateur theater group. He has staged his own and others' plays at national and international theaters. In 1981 his play The White Suit ( El terno blanco ) premiered in Potsdam . Occasionally he worked as a screenwriter and actor. For the jazz opera Libertad of Didier Lockwood (premiered in 2003), he wrote the libretto .

literature

• Horst Schumacher: Alegría, Alonso . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 17 f.

Web links

• Alonso Alegría at the Internet Movie Database (English)