Sergio Blanco
Sergio Blanco (Montevideo, 1971) is a playwright and stage director of Uruguayan origin and French nationality, considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary Latin American and European theater. His work revolves around autofiction, a genre that he has helped to define and consolidate within the performing arts. Through intellectual, poetic and provocative writing, Blanco has been able to put into tension the relationship between reality and fiction, between private life and theatrical representation.
Trained in classical literature and passionate about Greek mythology, philosophy and Baroque aesthetics, Blanco began writing at a very young age, but it was from the 2000s that he consolidated himself as a prominent figure in international dramaturgy. His works are texts of high literary density, with a great self-referential load, and often deal with themes such as death, guilt, desire, paternity, sexual identity or crime.
Sergio Blanco’s autofictional theatre: a writing of the self that challenges the other
Works such as El bramido de Düsseldorf, La ira de Narciso, La amante de los caballos, Tebas Land or El salto de Darwin have been premiered and performed around the world. In many of them, the author becomes a character —or acts himself—, breaking down the barriers between creator and stage fiction. This metatheatrical game, where the text speaks of its own construction, turns the spectator into an accomplice and judge, generating an intellectually provocative and emotionally intense theatrical experience.
La ira de Narciso, for example, is a fictionalised lecture in which Blanco himself narrates an apparently autobiographical story that gradually unravels before the audience. Tebas Land, inspired by the Oedipus myth and a real court case, questions the limits of forgiveness, representation and truth. These pieces are, at the same time, thought exercises and intimate rituals of public exposure.
Sergio Blanco: an international voice with a literary and radical outlook
In addition to his stage activity, Blanco is also a professor, lecturer and essayist. His dramaturgical thinking has had a great influence on new generations of creators. He has received numerous awards and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Sergio Blanco has made the theater a space for philosophical exploration and formal experimentation, where truth and lies are confused to reveal the multiple faces of the contemporary self.
