%0 Journal Article %T Prat de Teatro de Chile: Una f¨¢bula nacional pr¨®fuga atravesando las junturas entre arte y pol¨ªtica %A Carvajal %A Fernanda %J Atenea (Concepci¨®n) %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-04622010000200005 %X this article takes as starting point the play prat, of the company teatro de chile, whose first performance in the year 2002 appeared so disjointed and impertinent that it unleashed a polemic involving ultra conservative sectors, the ministerial bureaucracy and the artistic world, revealing the fissured zones of a truncated democratic transition. thus, this text begins with an aesthetic-artistic analysis of the play, to then look over the speeches - collected from the press and from personal interviews - of the different po-litical and artistic agents, who engaged in the controversy about prat¡¯s first performance. finally, we outline some reflective notes about the role of cultural institutionalism in the theatrical field, and a critical review of bourdieu¡¯s category of relative autonomy to understand the artistic fields. %K theatre %K politics %K censorship %K cultural institutionalism %K relative autonomy %K democratic transition. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-04622010000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en