Photo: Vera Saldivar
Part of: Transitions 2. Latin America
Theater

Latin America: The School

Guillermo Calderón

Dates

Tickets

5 — 10 €

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday-Thursday
Time
19:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

10 €
Concs 5 € | Unemployed 5 €

Duration

90 minutes

Introduction

“It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the Pinochet dictatorship was never defeated”, says Guillermo Calderón, inviting actors and audiences to an anarchic spectacle and diving off-limits into a guerilla war in Eighties Chile.

Photo: Vera Saldivar

Chile - Santiago

A key exponent of Latin America's new political theatre, a theatre of Memory and History, the dramatist and director Guillermo Calderón (b. 1971) makes his Greek debut with his most important work to date. “The School” (2013) follows the activities of a group of Chilean Leftists as they receive their training in the late nineteen eighties; their goal: to overturn the Pinochet regime.

Based on contemporary documents and eye-witness accounts, five actors take on the roles of the urban guerillas-to-be as they are initiated into the armed revolutionary struggle, its methods and practices. Like real Chilean apprentice guerillas, the actors wear masks so they will be unable to betray anyone if they are captured and tortured. But tensions rise behind the masks and passions flare... “The School”, like a Latin American answer to Bertolt Brecht's “The Measures Taken” (1930), sheds light on a dark chapter in the collective memory of the Chilean people and reflects on how we struggle, how we remember... or, more simply, what we are.

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Photo: Vera Saldivar

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Parallel event

Wednesday 19 November

After performance talk with Guillermo Calderón
Moderated by Katia Arfara, theater specialist, Artistic Director of the Theater and Dance Department at the Onassis Stegi.

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Credits

Stageplay & Direction
Guillermo Calderón
Assistant Director
María Paz González
With
Luis Cerda, Camila González, Trinidad González, Francisca Lewin, Carlos Ugarte
Sets
Loreto Martínez
Music
Felipe Bórquez
Translation
Panagiotis Evangelidis
Production
Fundación Teatro a Mil
Sponsoring / partnerships

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