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“Actress Trinidad González has chosen to go down an interesting path as a playwright and director”.
—Wikén Magazine
Written and directed by: Trinidad González | Cast: Matteo Citarella, Tomás González, Trinidad González | Music: Tomás González | Lighting design: Nicole Needham | Staging and costume design: Teatro Anónimo | Producer: Katy Cabezas | A Teatro a Mil Foundation and HAU International Center for Theater and Performance, Berlin coproduction.
Trinidad González Jansana
Director
Three-dimensional theater
She’s one of the founders of Teatro en el Blanco, where she worked from 2006 to 2012, acting in Neva and Diciembre by Guillermo Calderón and writing, directing and acting in La reunión. Her role as Olga Knipper in Neva won her the Altazor award in 2007 for Best Theater Actress. She’s also worked as an actress in cinema and on television series. Her role in the series Bala Loca won her the Caleuche award in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress. She’s been writing, directing and acting in her own creations since 2012 and La reunión, Pájaro and Carnaval are the results.
Teatro Anónimo
Teatro Anónimo, the company
Anti-market and anti-capital
Founded in 2018, this company writes plays that deal with the dehumanization of contemporary subjects. Their productions are both theatrical and musical pieces created specially by their members, using humor and surprising changes of direction to take the audience on an emotional journey that makes them ‘experience’ the play and not just watch it as spectators. They aim to achieve a sophisticated result on a budget, taking a political stance against prevailing consumerism. Broadening their creative horizons is also something crucial to them, which is why their pieces look to combine artistic styles on stage. Espíritu is their second piece, following on from the acclaimed Carnaval.
— It’s part of a political wager by the company and Trinidad González. As she said to Buenos Aires magazine Voyeur Cultural, “I think that theater as an artistic expression should take on contingent and human issues, facing up to them, raising awareness of them and even making a nuisance of itself if necessary to wake up society as a whole. Everything today is done to put us to sleep and the most alarming thing of all is that sometimes we don’t even realize it. Theater should mobilize us and wake us up”.
— The creative process behind it involved concepts from the book Nobility of Spirit by Dutch philosopher Rob Riemen, who suggests that a return to spirituality is the only way to leave today’s fascism and violence behind. According to Riemen, humans who have forgotten themselves and who don’t have a sense of community or a spiritual goal that gives meaning to their existence are blind and lethargic, lending themselves to domination by others.
— Its staging is very appealing, with music by singer-songwriter Tomás González, one of the most outstanding composers of music for theater and a member of the company, taking part as an actor as well as being the sound designer.
Neoliberalism: The successor to liberalism, this movement appeared after the First World War, during which state intervention in legal and economic matters had been limited. The key concept in neoliberal thought is the market. The transition from old to ‘new’ liberalism involves abandoning the idea that the government’s role is simply to let current markets function. From a neoliberal point of view, the government should actively create public policies so whole sectors can be organized according to the market attributes assigned by economists. To find out more about the Chilean neoliberal model, read this essay published in Ciper.
— Listen to an interview with Trinidad González on Teatroamil.tv, in which she talks about Carnaval, the acclaimed first production by Teatro Anónimo.
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Espíritu
By Trinidad González and Teatro Anónimo
- Chile
- Spanish
- 80 minutes
- + 14 years
A collection of nocturnal stories based on anonymous characters, reflecting the neoliberal individual’s search for meaning. This play by Trinidad González did, in fact, see the social uprising coming.
A nocturnal tour of any city reveals anonymous individuals in the throes of a spiritual crisis, the result of uncontrollable consumerism and exploitation of the neoliberal model. A lack of answers - far beyond money and material goods - leads these characters to search for the hidden evil that inhabits the city and capture it in a bottle.
Although Espíritu was developed prior to the social uprising in Chile in October 2019, the script identifies the uncomfortable symptoms bothering Chilean society and, although it doesn’t refer to this unease directly, it does deal with it poetically. This fast-paced piece combines several different stories, a nocturnal atmosphere and a style that mixes humor and pain. Live music gives the sensation of a midnight concert and songs, choirs and dances tell the story of the crisis that led to a huge social uprising.
“Actress Trinidad González has chosen to go down an interesting path as a playwright and director”.
—Wikén Magazine
Written and directed by: Trinidad González | Cast: Matteo Citarella, Tomás González, Trinidad González | Music: Tomás González | Lighting design: Nicole Needham | Staging and costume design: Teatro Anónimo | Producer: Katy Cabezas | A Teatro a Mil Foundation and HAU International Center for Theater and Performance, Berlin coproduction.
Trinidad González Jansana
Director
Three-dimensional theater
She’s one of the founders of Teatro en el Blanco, where she worked from 2006 to 2012, acting in Neva and Diciembre by Guillermo Calderón and writing, directing and acting in La reunión. Her role as Olga Knipper in Neva won her the Altazor award in 2007 for Best Theater Actress. She’s also worked as an actress in cinema and on television series. Her role in the series Bala Loca won her the Caleuche award in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress. She’s been writing, directing and acting in her own creations since 2012 and La reunión, Pájaro and Carnaval are the results.
Teatro Anónimo
Teatro Anónimo, the company
Anti-market and anti-capital
Founded in 2018, this company writes plays that deal with the dehumanization of contemporary subjects. Their productions are both theatrical and musical pieces created specially by their members, using humor and surprising changes of direction to take the audience on an emotional journey that makes them ‘experience’ the play and not just watch it as spectators. They aim to achieve a sophisticated result on a budget, taking a political stance against prevailing consumerism. Broadening their creative horizons is also something crucial to them, which is why their pieces look to combine artistic styles on stage. Espíritu is their second piece, following on from the acclaimed Carnaval.
— Porque es parte de la apuesta política de la compañía y de Trinidad González, como dijo a la revista bonaerense Voyeur Cultural: “Creo que el teatro como expresión artística debe hacerse cargo de los temas contingentes y humanos: enfrentar, sensibilizar e incluso molestar si esto es necesario para despertarnos como sociedad. Todo está hecho hoy en día para mantenernos dormidos y lo más alarmante es que a veces ni nos damos cuenta. El teatro debe movilizar y despertar”.
— Porque en su trabajo de creación utilizaron los conceptos del libro Nobleza de espíritu, del filósofo holandés Rob Riemen, donde plantea que la vuelta a la espiritualidad es la única manera de salir del fascismo y violencia actuales. Según Riemen, el ser humano olvidado de sí mismo, sin un sentido comunitario de la vida, y sin un propósito espiritual que le dé sentido a su existencia, se entrega ciego y dormido a la dominación de otros.
— Porque tiene una muy atractiva puesta en escena, con música del cantautor Tomás González, uno de los compositores de música teatral más destacados del medio, quien es miembro permanente de la compañía y participa tanto de la actuación como del diseño sonoro.
Neoliberalismo: Movimiento de actualización del liberalismo, aparecido después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que limita la intervención del Estado en asuntos jurídicos y económicos. El concepto clave en el pensamiento neoliberal es el mercado. La transición del liberalismo clásico al “nuevo liberalismo” es que se abandona la idea de que el rol de los gobiernos es simplemente dejar que los mercados existentes funcionen. Desde la perspectiva neoliberal, el gobierno debe crear activamente las condiciones para el desarrollo de nuevos mercados. Lo que hace el gobierno neoliberal es crear políticas públicas que empujan a sectores enteros a que sean organizados según los atributos que los economistas le asignan al mercado. Para revisar el modelo neoliberal chileno, se puede leer este ensayo publicado en Ciper.
— Revisa la entrevista a Trinidad González en Teatroamil.tv donde aborda Carnaval, el aplaudido primer montaje de Teatro Anónimo
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