Puppet theater
EL CAPOTE
- De Teatro y su Doble | Basada en un cuento de Nicolaï Gogol
- Country: Chili
- Premiere: 2007
- Target audience: +8 years
- Length: 50 minutes
The acclaimed Chilean company Teatro y su Doble returns to present its first production, where a puppet brings to life a simple public employee facing his difficult economic situation.
Akakiy Akakievich is a human being like many, unsuccessful, who spends his hours in a job that tires him out. A man alone, simple and without ambition, wandering in his tiny space in an orderly and silent manner.
A good man. But one day, as if by magic, something shakes him. An event that seems like bad news, the tearing of his shabby coat in the freezing winter of St. Petersburg awakens him from his lethargy and submission.
It becomes imperative to get a new one, something beyond his economic possibilities. For the first time, his vital commitment sprouts. His life is modified by the virtue of the desire that moves him. He gets an existential engine for that apparently subhuman and helpless life.
He makes an effort, he succeeds: "he sees the light in the form of a cape", he recovers his dignity, his dreams... and he flourishes. But the system and destiny hover over mortals and Akakiy will not be the exception...
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Credits:
Company:
Teatro y su doble
Direction:
Teatro Milagros (actualmente Teatro y su Doble)
Adaptation:
Paola Giannini
Comprehensive design:
Aline Kuppenheim
Made by:
Aline Kuppenheim, Paola Giannini, Tiago Correa
Cast:
Aline Kuppenheim, Loreto Moya, Ricardo Parraguez, Camila Cuesta
Original music:
Rolando Álvarez, Felipe Hurtado
Technical head:
Matías Segura
Voices:
Alfredo Castro, Hugo Medina, Pedro Vicuña, Roberto Poblete
Financing:
FONDART
Production:
Teatro Milagros (actualmente Teatro y su Doble)
Producer:
Loreto Moya
Biographies:
Compañía Teatro y su doble
It was created in 2005 as Teatro Milagros: a space of experimentation and search for new languages and diverse theatrical tools, where the figure of the puppet was gaining more and more strength. In its plays, the actors-manipulators are at the service of the theatrical object, managing to transmit the text and awaken emotions through the illusion of life of the dolls, and the willingness of the spectator to surrender to a subjective look. The company has already staged other outstanding plays, such as Pedro y el lobo, Sobre la cuerda floja, Feos and El hámster del presidente, the latter three also co-productions of Fundación Teatro a Mil.
Premios:
2006 - Fondart del Gobierno de Chile
Production of “El Capote”, a play adapted from Nicolaï Gogol's short story.
2012 - Premio ATINA
Ciclo de Teatro Chileno en Teatro Sarmientos de Buenos Aires - Best Foreign Show for Sobre la Cuerda Floja (On a Tightrope)
Previous dates:
2024 - Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil
Retrospectiva en Teatro Mori Bellavista - Funciones en Colegio San Gabriel, La Legua y Coelemu.
2023 - Temporada Teatro Mori Bellavista
Teatro Municipal de Recoleta, Los Ángeles, Lampa (Famfest) Chillán Viejo, Maipú, Universidad UBO y DUOC de Valparaíso.
2018 - Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil
Antofagasta e Iquique, Teatro Palace de Coquimbo, Teatro Municipal de Chillán
2017 - Temporada Teatro Mori Bellavista
Por sus 10 años de estreno
2017
Teatro Nacional Chileno
2017
Gira Instituto Nacional de Teatro de Argentina por Mendoza, San Luis, Trelew, Las Grutas, Comodoro Rivadavia y Neuquén
2016
Festival de teatro de Quilicura
2016
7ª Festival de Marionetas de Valdivia
2016
Festival de la Casa Museo del Títere y el Payaso en Valparaíso
2016
Itinerancia Fittich en Osorno, Puerto Varas, Isla Huar, Nercón (Castro) y Palqui (Curaco de Vélez)
2015
Festival ZICOSUR FITZA en Antofagasta y Mejillones (Chile)
2014
Festival Titirimundi en Valladolid, Zamora, Burgos, Miranda de Ebros y Segovia, España
2014
Festival Centro Histórico de Ciudad de México DF y Teatro IMSS de Guadalajara
2014
Gira Fundación Teatro a Mil San Antonio, San Felipe y Rancagua
2014
Gira Gobierno Regional y realiza la Gira Chile Celebra en región de Aysén (Patagonia) en Coyhaique, Aysén, La Junta, Puerto Cisnes, Lago Verde, Chile Chico, Cochrane, Caleta Tortel y Villa O´Higgins
2013
Temporada en Teatro UC
2012
Festival ”Cielos Infinitos” en Punta Arenas y Puerto Natales
2012
Festival Famfest. Centro GAM
2011
Festival Dialog de la ciudad de Wroclaw, Polonia
2011
Teatro de la Marioneta de París, Francia
2010
Red de Festivales de Quito, Guayaquil y Manta, Ecuador
2010
Festival de Lo Barnechea (Stgo-Chile) y en el Teatro del Lago de Frutillar (Chile)
January 2010 Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil
Invitado especial en la versión bicentenario en Teatro Mori Bellavista
2009
Teatro Latino-Americano en Sao Paulo, Brasil
2009
Festival Chéjov en Moscú
2009
Festival de los barrios de Castilla y León en la ciudad de Salamanca, España
2008
Teatro Duoc Viña del Mar
2008
Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Sala Claudio Arrau
2008
Gira Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (Ovalle, La Serena, Illapel, Quillota)
2008
Temporada Teatro Mori Parque Arauco
2008
Carnavales Culturales de Valparaíso
2008
Festival Tanzteather de Pina Bausch en Wuppertal Alemania.
2008
Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil
2007
Festival de Marionetas de La Reina
2007
Estreno Temporada Teatro Mori Bellavista, abril - julio
