“Pulling on a little thread”

this article examines how the writing of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre moves from social melodrama into epic theater and then political and documentary theater. We show how the documentary strategies slowly influenced her creations, timidly in the play Población Esperanza (1959), written with Manuel Rojas, but mainly in Los papeleros (1961) and Los que van quedando en el camino (1969).