Prat de Teatro de Chile: Una fábula nacional prófuga atravesando las junturas entre arte y política

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.