Compañero of Chile
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Title | Compañero of Chile (theatre programme)
Creator | Pentridge Mess Hall Players; play by Stan Taylor; based on work by Victor Jara
Date | 1977 (October)
Format | Printed theatre programme (paper)
Notes | Programme for a 1977 performance of Compañero of Chile staged by the Pentridge Mess Hall Players at Pentridge Prison. The programme includes a President’s Foreword outlining the history and development of prisoner theatre at Pentridge, cast and production credits, acknowledgements, and excerpts from Violence in Chile. It documents a politically engaged prisoner theatre production addressing human rights abuses in Chile following the military coup, and reflects the Mess Hall Players’ role in producing socially and politically conscious drama within the prison.
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