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{{Short description|Argentine theatre director (1934–1982)}}
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[[File:Père-Lachaise - Division 74 - Garcia 01.jpg|thumb|[[Père-Lachaise Cemetery]]]]

'''Victor Garcia''' (Pedro Victor Garcia Patta)([[Tucumán]], [[Argentina]]; December 16, 1934 – Paris; August 28, 1982), was an Argentine award-winning [[theatre director]].

He directed a production of [[Jean Genet]]'s ''[[The Balcony]]'' at the [[Ruth Escobar Theatre]] in [[São Paulo]] in 1969, which Genet saw in July 1970.<ref>Savona (1983, 72), Dichy (1993, xxix), and White (1993, 621-622).</ref> The production was staged under the new regime of [[Brazil]]'s [[military dictator]] [[Emílio Garrastazu Médici|General Garrastazu Médici]]; the actress who played Chantal, [[Nilda Maria (actress)|Nilda Maria]], was arrested for anti-government activities and her children were sent to Public Welfare, prompting Genet to petition the wife of the city's governor for their release.<ref name=w622>White (1993, 621-622).</ref> In Garcia's production, the audience observed the action from vertiginous balconies overlooking a pierced {{Convert|65|ft|m|adj=on}} plastic and steel tunnel; the actors performed on platforms within the tunnel, or clinging to its sides, or on the metal ladders that led from one platform to another, creating the impression of animals driven insane within the cages of a zoo.<ref name=w622/> The aim, Garcia explained, was to make the public feel as though it was suspended in a void, with "nothing in front of it nor behind it, only precipices."<ref name=w622/> It won 13 critics' awards in the country and ran for 20 months.<ref name=w622/> 

He won the 1973 [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director]] and the [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design|Award for Outstanding Set Design]] for his production of [[Federico García Lorca]]'s ''[[Yerma]]''with [[Nuria Espert]] and [[Julieta Serrano]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-yerma2.html|title = Madrid: Triumph of Lorca's 'Yerma'}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=412282 See the Internet Broadway Databases's article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018164321/http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=412282 |date=2012-10-18 }}.</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* Dichy, Albert. 1993. "Chronology." In White (1993, xiii-xxxv).
* Savona, Jeannette L. 1983. ''Jean Genet''. Grove Press Modern Dramatists ser. New York: Grove P. {{ISBN|0-394-62045-3}}.
* [[Edmund White|White, Edmund]]. 1993. ''Genet.'' Corrected edition. London: Picador, 1994. {{ISBN|0-330-30622-7}}
* ''O TEATRO DE VICTOR GARCIA'', JEFFERSON DEL RIOS, Edições Sesc São Paulo. 2012, 288 p. {{ISBN|978-85-7995-036-0}}
* ''Los muros y las puertas en el teatro de Víctor García'', Juan Carlos Malcún, Instituto Nacional del Teatro, Buenos Aires, 2011 
* [[Enrique Raab]], Periodismo todoterreno: Selección, comentarios y prólogo de María Moreno,
* {{cite web | author=David Whitton | title=Victor Garcia | url=http://www.answers.com/topic/v-ctor-garc-a  | work=French Literature Companion | publisher= Oxford University Press | year=2005 | access-date=23 August 2008}}
* {{cite web | author=David Whitton | title=Victor Garcia | url=http://www.answers.com/topic/v-ctor-garc-a  | work=French Literature Companion | publisher= Oxford University Press | year=2005 | access-date=2008-08-23}}

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