Rodolfo Usigli

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Rodolfo Usigli (born November 17, 1905, and died June 1979) was a Mexican playwright. He was born to an Italian father and a Polish mother in Mexico City.

His play El gesticulador, 1938, was perhaps the only play ever to be censored by the Mexican government for political reasons.

The award-winning Usigli believed the objective of theatre was to tell the truth about society. He was known for his strong representation of women in plays.

Usigli designed strong female characters in several of his plays. Two of Usigli's protégées, Rosario Castellanos and Luisa Josefina Hernández, became important female voices on the Mexican stage.

• Called "Playwright of the Mexican Revolution"
• Was trilingual
• With a Rockefeller scholarship, studied drama at Yale in 1935-36
• Directed radio dramas in the 1930s
• Was also a professor and diplomat

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Rodolfo Usigli website at Miami University of Ohio

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