María Azambuya (5 October 1944 – 26 February 2011) was an Uruguayan actress and theatre director.

Biography

Azambuya graduated from the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts. In 1973, she joined the theatre group , with whom she would participate in the production of over 50 theatrical works as an actress or as a director. She would remain a member of El Galpón until her death, even when the group was exiled to Mexico by the Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay. Between 1992 and 2010, Azampuya was a professor of theatre arts at the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts. Azambuya performed in such works as Molière's '' The Miser'' (1973), Aristophanes's '' Plutus'' (1974), 's ''Doña Ramona'' (1974), ''Voces de amor y lucha'' (a collection of works in Mexico, 1980), and

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's ''Artigas general del pueblo'' (1981),

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's ''El patio de la Torcaza'',

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's ''Rasga corazón'' (1988),

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'' (1990),

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The Good Person of Szechwan ''The Good Person of Szechwan'' (german: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as ''The Good Man of Setzuan'') is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau ...

'', Neil Simon's ''El prisionero de la Segunda Avenida'', and

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Bohemian Lights ''Bohemian Lights'', or ''Luces de Bohemia'' in the original Spanish, is a play written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, published in 1924. The central character is Max Estrella, a struggling poet afflicted by blindness due to developing syphilis. ...

'', among others.

Citations

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