Queer Shifts of Political Theatre: Expanded Sexual Dissidences in Chilean Contemporary Theatre

Abstract

The following article verifies the presence of sex-dissident discourses in contemporary Chilean political theatre that emerged in a context of intense feminist student movements (2017-2018-2019). Three artistic theatrical proposals that queerise the hegemonic sexual narrative from its lines of meaning, antagonising the regulated dictates of heterosexuality. In this article I will concentrate on demonstrating what I will call a "queer shift of political theatre”, analysing the sex-dissident expansions in the proposals in order to detect the dissent to heterosexuality as a power by pointing out a new problematic hegemony in the theatre: heterosexuality as a political regime.