Quote by Griselda Gambaro: “The spectator who does not protest becomes an accomplice.”

Watching something harmful unfold without speaking up makes you part of it. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality — it is a form of consent. Whether in a theater, a society, or a room, choosing not to object is choosing to allow.

Argentina's military coup of March 1976 inaugurated the Dirty War, during which an estimated thirty thousand people were disappeared. Gambaro's theater was banned, and she was forced into exile in Spain. Her work from this period confronted audiences with the moral question of what ordinary people owe when atrocities are committed in their presence.

Argentine playwright and novelist whose Theater of the Grotesque challenged Argentine audiences to recognize their complicity in political violence during the country's military dictatorships. Her plays, including Information for Foreigners, were written during and about the period of state terror that disappeared thousands of Argentines.