Theatre
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by: Gabriela Olguín | Cast: Gabriela Olguín, Athenea Lagos and Camila Molina | Written by: Óscar Castro | Directed and adapted by: Gabriela Olguín | Choreography: Athenea Lagos | Sound: Ignacio Hernández| Lighting: Simón Bruna.
Gabriela Olguín
Directora
Heading up Teatro Aleph in Chile
This actress and director trained at Teatro Aleph, where she has been working since the eighties. She was assistant director to Oscar Castro and currently runs Teatro Aleph Chile, which has been putting on shows by the Chilean playwright since 2013, such as La bruma, La democracia del miedo or La nebulosa vida de José Miranda. She has also dabbled in performance and the visual arts.
Oscar Castro
The writer
A tireless artist
This multidisciplinary artist was born in Santiago in 1947. Twenty years later, together with a self-taught group of friends and artists, he founded Teatro Aleph. With a provocative way of writing inspired by the political and social movements of the time, his pieces soon became Latin American theatrical icons. Due to his work encouraging theater during the first few years of the dictatorship, he was sent into exile in France, where he reformed the group, working with them right up to the last day of his life in Europe.
Teatro Aleph Chile
The company
Working in both France and Chile
Founded in 1967 in Chile by director, playwright and actor Oscar Castro, this theater group was created by students from different universities without formal theater training, who were taught by artists such as Héctor Noguera, the Brazilian Augusto Boal and Jerzy Grotowski from Poland. During the dictatorship, they visited concentration camps performing their plays and, from 1976 onwards - when their director was exiled - they worked in France. In 2013, Teatro Aleph was refounded in Chile under director Gabriela Olguín.
—It is a play with multiple different interpretations depending on who is watching. The company says it is aimed at children but incorporates the complexity of historical events, with creator Oscar Castro developing the characters based on right-wing, center and left-wing politicians.
—It is one of the new pieces by Teatro Aleph Chile, which was formed in 2013 as an off-shoot of the mythical company currently based in France, with local actors and issues reflecting what is happening in Chile.
—Check out Teatro Aleph Chile’s official channel on YouTube.
On Instagram, teatroaleph
On Facebook, teatro.aleph.9
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El Rey
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by Gabriela Olguín
- Chile
- Spanish
- 75 minutes
- Todo público
This updated version of the play Érase una vez un rey - written by the founder of Teatro Aleph, Oscar Castro, just weeks before the military coup - now incorporates a female perspective.
El Rey tells the story of three homeless people who live in a dump under a bridge on the banks of the Mapocho River, collecting garbage. Tired of this situation, they dream of having a servant who does everything for them and of getting a taste - however brief - of the power of being able to boss someone around. Since they do not have money to pay someone, they invent a game: being king. They agree that, for one week, one of them will be king and reign over the rest of them, assuming absolute power while the others are their slaves, their servants.
Written by the founder of Teatro Aleph, Oscar Castro, just before the military coup in 1973 and performed in concentration camps during the first years of the dictatorship, this new version has a female cast and was updated by the playwright in 2000. This adaptation is part of the repertoire of Teatro Aleph Chile, a branch of the original company based in France, and is directed by Gabriela Olguín.
El Rey
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by Gabriela Olguín
- Chile
- Spanish
- 75 minutes
- Todo público
This updated version of the play Érase una vez un rey - written by the founder of Teatro Aleph, Oscar Castro, just weeks before the military coup - now incorporates a female perspective.
El Rey tells the story of three homeless people who live in a dump under a bridge on the banks of the Mapocho River, collecting garbage. Tired of this situation, they dream of having a servant who does everything for them and of getting a taste - however brief - of the power of being able to boss someone around. Since they do not have money to pay someone, they invent a game: being king. They agree that, for one week, one of them will be king and reign over the rest of them, assuming absolute power while the others are their slaves, their servants.
Written by the founder of Teatro Aleph, Oscar Castro, just before the military coup in 1973 and performed in concentration camps during the first years of the dictatorship, this new version has a female cast and was updated by the playwright in 2000. This adaptation is part of the repertoire of Teatro Aleph Chile, a branch of the original company based in France, and is directed by Gabriela Olguín.
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by: Gabriela Olguín | Cast: Gabriela Olguín, Athenea Lagos and Camila Molina | Written by: Óscar Castro | Directed and adapted by: Gabriela Olguín | Choreography: Athenea Lagos | Sound: Ignacio Hernández| Lighting: Simón Bruna.
Gabriela Olguín
Directora
Heading up Teatro Aleph in Chile
This actress and director trained at Teatro Aleph, where she has been working since the eighties. She was assistant director to Oscar Castro and currently runs Teatro Aleph Chile, which has been putting on shows by the Chilean playwright since 2013, such as La bruma, La democracia del miedo or La nebulosa vida de José Miranda. She has also dabbled in performance and the visual arts.
Oscar Castro
The writer
A tireless artist
This multidisciplinary artist was born in Santiago in 1947. Twenty years later, together with a self-taught group of friends and artists, he founded Teatro Aleph. With a provocative way of writing inspired by the political and social movements of the time, his pieces soon became Latin American theatrical icons. Due to his work encouraging theater during the first few years of the dictatorship, he was sent into exile in France, where he reformed the group, working with them right up to the last day of his life in Europe.
Teatro Aleph Chile
The company
Working in both France and Chile
Founded in 1967 in Chile by director, playwright and actor Oscar Castro, this theater group was created by students from different universities without formal theater training, who were taught by artists such as Héctor Noguera, the Brazilian Augusto Boal and Jerzy Grotowski from Poland. During the dictatorship, they visited concentration camps performing their plays and, from 1976 onwards - when their director was exiled - they worked in France. In 2013, Teatro Aleph was refounded in Chile under director Gabriela Olguín.
—It is a play with multiple different interpretations depending on who is watching. The company says it is aimed at children but incorporates the complexity of historical events, with creator Oscar Castro developing the characters based on right-wing, center and left-wing politicians.
—It is one of the new pieces by Teatro Aleph Chile, which was formed in 2013 as an off-shoot of the mythical company currently based in France, with local actors and issues reflecting what is happening in Chile.
—Check out Teatro Aleph Chile’s official channel on YouTube.
On Instagram, teatroaleph
On Facebook, teatro.aleph.9
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