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Another story: a reinterpretation of our history

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In all corners of this country has figured out how to celebrate the best a long-awaited bicentennial. It's 200 years free of English colonial and own construction as a state. This is the reflection that the Public Theatre brings to the stage with his latest production "Celebration", look for these same 200 years, but from a more marginal and criticism, which invites a reinterpretation of our history. Think

Chile in the Bicentennial is the task of "Celebration", directed by Patricia Artés assembly and written jointly by the Public Theater in conjunction with Cristian Aravena. The work presents the history of Chile nonlinear untold, those events were decided silence or directly modified to protect the powerful, as well as to allocate to groups or indigenous people's power, characteristics of barbarism and terrorism, building on Thus a reductionist narrative, full of lies and abuse.

remarkable success in staging is the time when a clock stops running for a minute and players write names on the boards thousands of deaths that occurred in different massacres in these two centuries.

Moreover, in another scene we see three young men playing "Metropolis", who reflect on capitalism, the history of the populations of Chile and economic inequality that exists between life in the flag and Las Condes. Or use a simple, yet symbolic scenic resource such as bulletin boards (chalk) becomes clearly significant in each of the scenes. A history taught us straight through them and we are also we can rewrite it. They are drawn images that complement the scenery, inviting imagine many possible moments history of our country.

"Celebration" is a work of mostly based on improvisation and the opinions of their creators. Explore the style of Brecht, using it as a teaching tool, intends to open a debate, dialogue with the public, confronting it with this other story, one that is not found in books of Frias Valenzuela and many others that have not been made by painful episodes of Chile.

Date: 14 August to 5 September. Time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 20:00 hrs. Location: Marin 0349. Metro Santa Isabel.