By then, independent Argentine theatre was limited not only by the boom in commercial theatre productions; but also by a climate of repression. Threats to artistic freedom during the country's last dictatorship were eased somewhat in 1980 with the support of the relatively moderate Army Chief, General Roberto Viola. Dragún then premiered his "¿Y por casa cómo andamos?" ("How're We Doing at Home?"), a commentary on unhappy, paternalistic households and their effects on culture. The slowly improving climate of freedoms also led Dragún to form a partnership with fellow playwrights Carlos Gorostiza and Roberto Cossa, as well as with numerous actors, to form an "Argentine Open Theatre", by which they hoped to encourage a return of the freedom of expression whose absence had led so many other cultural figures to leave Argentina since 1975. Converting a shuttered spark plug factory in the Balvanera district of Buenos Aires to the "Picadero Theatre," they premiered a festival of their collective new works (including Dragún's "Mi obelisco y yo" - ""My Obelisk and Me"") to acclaim on July 28, 1981. This success was marred by the theatre's fire bombing a week later, still an "unsolved mystery."