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Celebration: A History revisited

14 October 2010

In all corners of this country has been thought of as the best way to celebrate the long awaited bicentennial of Chile. 200 years are free of English colonial years of their own construction country. 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.

Chile's Bicentennial think, 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 attribute popular power groups or groups of indigenous power, characteristics of barbarism and terrorism, thus building 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 names written on the boards of thousands of deaths, occurred at different slaughter in these 200 years.

Moreover, in another scene we see three young men playing "Metropolis or great Capital", which through the dialogues reflect about capitalism, the history of the populations of Chile and economic inequality that exists between life on the flag or Las Condes.

Using a simple, but 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 possible to imagine many historical moments in 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 confronted with this other story, one that is not found in books of Frias Valenzuela and many others who have not taken over the painful episodes of Chile.

Author: Cristian Aravena and Public Theater.
Address: Patricia Artés.
Cast: Cecilia Acuña, Javiera Zeme, Marcelo Arcos, Cristián Lagreze, Martín Muñoz Alejandro Miranda
Date: October 28,29,30, 4,5,6 and 7 November
Time: 20: 00 hrs.
Venue: Theatre Hall UCINF

By: Marcela Piña Montanares