Osvaldo Dragún
Osvaldo Dragún (May 7, 1929 Entre Ríos, Argentina –June 14, 1999 Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a prominent Argentine playwright and the director of Cervantes Theater. Life and work Osvaldo Dragún was born in Colonia Berro, a History of the Jews in Argentina#Agricultural settlement, Jewish agricultural settlement, near San Salvador, Entre Ríos, San Salvador in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. After his father's linseed farm suffered from recurrent locust problems, the family left the settlement for Buenos Aires. Dragún left his university studies in 1953 to pursue his calling in the theatre. Joining the Fray Mocho Theatre in 1956, he premiered his first work, ''La peste viene de Melos'' (''The Plague from Melos''). The politically charged play, on the 1954 Operation PBSUCCESS, coup d'état against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, Jacobo Árbenz, drew also from the playwright's own childhood memories of his father's struggles with locusts. He continued to write controversial ...
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