Óscar Castro Ramírez

Oscar Castro Ramírez,^[1] (13 May 1947^[2] – 25 April 2021^[3]), was a Chilean playwright, actor and director of the Aleph Theater.

Life

Óscar Castro founded the

On his release in 1976, Óscar was exiled^[6] and sought asylum in France.
Since 1976, Óscar lived in

He died from COVID-19 on 25 April 2021 at the age of 73 in Paris, France.^[7]

Drama

Some dates

Óscar Castro has written, directed and performed in more than 30 Aleph creations, touring in France, Europe, Russia and North, Central and Latin America.

• 1982 Nominated member of the French
  PEN Club
  .
• 1983 Received the prize of the Best Script and Best Stage Direction for "La Nuit Suspendue" at Rencontres Charles Dullin, Villejuif (France).^[8]
• 1988 “On s’est tant aimé à Santiago”: documentary directed by
  Antenne 2
  ).
• 1990 created the Théâtre des Gens et des Métiers (T.G.M). First festival in the Bataclan (Paris).^[9]
• 1992 Nominated
  French President François Mitterrand
  .
• 1995 Creation of the Theatre Aleph in
  Ivry sur Seine: a theatrical space for creation, training and performance. Creation of his school - LATINACTOR
  .
• 2013 Óscar Castro creates Teatro Aleph in Santiago with young Chilean actors.
• 2017 Nominated Comendador del orden al mérito docente y cultura Gabriela Mistral distinction awarded by ministry of education of Chile.
• 2018 Nominated
  Chevalier de la légion d'honneur distinction awarded by Françoise Nyssen, ministry of Culture

• Gabriel García Márquez, organized Aleph tour of Mexico and Cuba (1981).
• Robert Doisneau, President of the Aleph Theatre (1990-1994).
• Pierre Barouh, co-author and actor (1985-1991).^[10]
• Pierre Richard, actor in the company (1996).
• Adel Hakim, director of T.Q.I.^[11](C.D.N. d’Ivry-sur-Seine). Oscar Castro has written two plays directed by Adel Hakim and co-produced with Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry (TQI): "Le 11 septembre de Salvador Allende" (2003),^[12] and "La nébuleuse vie de José Miranda" (2009).^[13]
• 2007 Collaboration with WWF France for the creation and performance of the play "Hasta la vida siempre", a burlesque and poetic comedy on ecology and sustainable development.
• 2010 In partnership with the Foundation France Libertés (Danielle Mitterrand) and the Water Carriers Movement, Óscar Castro writes and directs "Les porteurs d’eau" with his teenage drama class and publishes an illustrated children’s story on the importance of water for the future of humanity. This play is performed in schools as part of the campaign to protect water.^[14]
• 2010-2011, Óscar Castro organises theatrical conferences at the Aleph (Ivry) to which he invites famous personalities defending human rights and ecology such as Alain Touraine, Serge Orru, Carmen Castillo, Gilles Clément, Danielle Mitterrand.
• 2011-2012-2013, Óscar Castro organises
  Sciences Po Paris such as Max-Jean Zins, Delphine Grouès, Dominique Boullier
  .
• 2011-2012, Óscar Castro organises theatrical conferences at the Aleph (Ivry) to which he invites professor of Philosophy Emmanuel Brassat.
• 2012- 2014, In the context of an educational project named FORCAST led by Dominique Boullier in SCIENCES PO and 12 educational partners, he joined as a pedagogical and artistic contributor in the numeric book course taught by Pierre Mounier.

And

• La verdadera historia del Kabaret de la Última Esperanza (1997) Santiago, Chile: LOM, as a novel of the play "Le Kabaret de la Dernière Chance".
• La véritable histoire du Kabaret de la Dernière Chance (1999) - Novel - Paris: Éditions de l’Amandier.^[16]
• La plume du corbeau (2003) Paris: Éditions de l’Amandier. A collection of four plays written by Oscar Castro : L’Exilé Mateluna, Il était une fois un roi, Le Che que j’aime, Meutre à Valparaíso.
• Trilogie théâtrale : Le
  Latin American
  figures of the 20th century.
• Hasta la vida siempre (2008) Paris: Éditions de l’Amandier. Text published in Spanish and French.
• Les porteurs d’eau (2011) Paris: Éditions de l’Amandier. An illustrated children’s story (illustration : Marie-Hélène O'Neill), published with the support of Foundation France Libertés and the Mouvement des Porteus d’eau. Preface by Danielle Mitterrand and postface by Gilles Clément.
• Après l'oubli le souvenir (2011) - Novel - Paris: Éditions de l’Amandier^[17]