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Guillermo Calder�n

Director
Guillermo Calder�n
Set design
Ma. Jes�s Gonz�lez �
Pilar Landerretche
Costume design
Chino Gonz�lez
Music
Tom�s Gonz�lez

Cast
Jorge Becker
Trinidad Gonz�lez
Paula Z��iga

Production
Teatro en el blanco und Jenny Romero, Santiago
Director�s assistant
Catalina Ly�n
Graphic Design
Manuel Florencio

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Duration: appr. 75 minutes, no interval

 

Olga is desperate. The famous actress is struggling for words. The role simply won�t come to her. Chekhov�s �Cherry Orchard� is being rehearsed. She herself, Chekhov�s widow, has taken on the lead role. Masha, his sister, and a young star, Aleko, are also present. Nobody else has made it to the theatre. Outside the revolution is shedding blood. Inside everybody is overwhelmed by their emotions: Aleko quickly confesses his secret love for Olga, and Masha wants to take up arms and fight for justice. Olga can�t concentrate. The theatre is at an end. This is where Guillermo Calder�n�s play starts: the young Chilean dramatist elegantly and expertly combines authentic biographical material, quotes from Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov and eye-witness accounts, and enables the three forlorn people on stage to act magically. This, on the one hand, is as troubling and comic as in one of Chekhov�s own dramas. On the other hand, it takes the audience out of the theatre, into the personal, the political, the present and reveals the power that theatre has.

 

In Spanish with German subtitles.
There will be an audience talk after the performance on 13 June. Admission free.

With the support of the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Chile.

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