Theater
Estampida humana
After the success of Temis, the end of the Trilogy of La Barbarie, the Bonobo Company premieres its new play at the Teatro a Mil International Festival 2025. “Estampida Humana” talks about how social ties, community life and public spaces have been shaped into places of danger and violence.
CHILE 2025. A neighborhood board meeting must decide what to do about a group of homeless people who took over the neighborhood square; to a decoration store that is on the verge of bankruptcy, and to the first clandestine leftist faction within the Carabineros (police).
With wit and black humor, these three stories wonder about fear, violence and hopelessness that is generated when thinking about a large-scale collective project in Chile and that triggers different contradictory and delirious forms of solutions, which have as their background a deep fight against loneliness.
“Co-commissioned and supported by The Democracy Cycle, a program of Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC and Civis Foundation.”
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Credits:
Playwriting
Pablo Manzi
Direction
Andreina Olivarí y Pablo Manzi
Cast
Carlos Donoso, Paulina Giglio, Gabriel Cañas, Gabriel Urzúa, Guilherme Sepúlveda, Coca Guazzini
Integral design
Juan Andrés Rivera y Felipe Olivares
Audiovisual design and technical manager:
Alex Waghorn
Music
Daniel Marabolí
Production
Alessandra Massardo.
Biographies:
Compañía Bonobo
Theater company formed in 2010, under the direction of Pablo Manzi and Andreina Olivari. In their works, they seek to bring to the stage unpublished plays that drive critical reflection. To date, and to great success, they have debuted Amansadura (2012), Donde Viven los Bárbaros (2015) and Tú Amarás (2018), which have participated at the Cádiz Festival, Santiago a Mil, ¡Adelante! (Germany), Cielos del Infinito (Chile), and others. Pablo Manzi received the 2016 Dramaturgy Award for Donde Viven los Bárbaros, bestowed by the Santiago Municipal Government, along with the Literary Award, in the Dramaturgy category, from the National Council for Culture and the Arts, and the 2015 Dramaturgy Award, from the Chilean Art Critic Society.
Andreina Olivari
Actress, director of Bonobo, and also a teacher, with a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Universidad de Chile. She has performed with different groups and for diverse directors in Chile. As part of the company, she acted in Amansadura, and has directed Donde Viven los Bárbaros and Tú Amarás. The pieces she has directed have shown and received accolades at multiple festivals, such as the Cadiz Festival (Spain), the ¡Adelante! Festival (Germany), Temporada Alta (Peru), Santiago a Mil (Chile), and others. This year, she has been invited to participate as a speaker at the Holland Festival Parels.
Pablo Manzi
Actor, director and playwright. A large portion of his career has been together with the Bonobo theater company, where he wrote and directed Amansadura, Donde Viven los Bárbaros and Tú Amarás, a play developed during a residency at the Baryshnikov Art Center, in New York. His pieces have participated at different festivals in Chile and around the world. In 2017, the British Council invited him to a residency at the Royal Court Theatre, in London.
Bonobo's Awards:
Premio DRAMATURGIA 2016
Ilustre Municipalidad de Santiago, Chile
Premio Literario 2016. Categoría DRAMATURGIA.
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes. Santiago, Chile.
Premio Mejor Obra 2016. Dónde viven los bárbaros
VI Festival Teatro Joven de las Condes. Santiago, Chile.
Premio José Nuez Martín
Mención Teatro de la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago, Chile
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