Performers: Nicolás Lange and Iván Cidrian.
Nicolás Lange
Director
None
Writer, performer, and stage director from Chilean Patagonia. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from the University of Chile. Currently pursuing the DAS Theatre Master’s program at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Netherlands, 2024).
In his still-short career, his texts have been translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French, and his works have been presented in more than 15 countries.
Author of the books Caminamos Porque Amamos Algo (CastoryPólux, 2024) and Hunt The Dog Hunt The Boy Hunt The Other Boy Too (Centro Dramático Nacional de Madrid, 2024), as well as the anthologies Delirios de Cautiverio from the Teatro Nacional Chileno (Universidad de Chile-Editorial, 2021) and Las Pasiones del Cuerpo: Presencia Escénica y Experiencia Sinestésica (LOM, 2015). He wrote his most recent text as part of the International Residency Program, representing the Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid.
Winner of the National Playwriting Showcase and the 2023 Literary Awards for his play Esto podría durar y durar y durar y durar y durar. Recipient of the 85th Gabriela Mistral Awards. He has been an artist-in-residence at GORKI Theater (Berlin), KVS (Brussels), Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (Vilnius), Giornate del Respiro (Sardinia, Italy), Teatro Cantiere Florida and PARC: Performing Arts Research Centre (Florence, Italy), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and Watermill Center (New York).
This year he was invited to FOCO-Chile at the Avignon Festival, where he presented his current project. He is currently writing his new novel, which will be published by Penguin Random House. He is also the guest artist at the CAMPUS: Paulo Silva e Cunha residency in Porto, Portugal, where he will begin his new stage project.
Work in Progress: The Killing of The First Person
By Nicolás Lange
- Chile
- 60 minutes
A performance built on the ashes of the burning of “sodomites” in late-15th-century Florence — an event that sparked a deadly mechanism that’s repeated itself, in a grim loop, right up to today.
Fire, the audience’s fascination with light, and that magician’s trick of making a body vanish in the flames open up a question: what kind of future are we supposed to protect ourselves from?
Do we really need to stay in the light in a place like this? What does it mean to keep doing theater that feeds on stories meant to illuminate martyrdom from the inside out?
This piece is about that — about the vowels and consonants that fade away when someone dies. It’s a work about fire, language, and homosexuality pushed into the shadows. A promise to return to the 15th century. A piece against the “enlightened,” against those who set others on fire — who, most of the time, are the same ones chasing the light.
Dates:
TUE
20
jan
11:30 a.m.
Centro Gabriela Mistral - GAM
Santiago
*Actividad exclusiva para acreditados PLATEA: Professionals Week 2026
Performers: Nicolás Lange and Iván Cidrian.
Nicolás Lange
Director
None
Writer, performer, and stage director from Chilean Patagonia. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from the University of Chile. Currently pursuing the DAS Theatre Master’s program at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Netherlands, 2024).
In his still-short career, his texts have been translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French, and his works have been presented in more than 15 countries.
Author of the books Caminamos Porque Amamos Algo (CastoryPólux, 2024) and Hunt The Dog Hunt The Boy Hunt The Other Boy Too (Centro Dramático Nacional de Madrid, 2024), as well as the anthologies Delirios de Cautiverio from the Teatro Nacional Chileno (Universidad de Chile-Editorial, 2021) and Las Pasiones del Cuerpo: Presencia Escénica y Experiencia Sinestésica (LOM, 2015). He wrote his most recent text as part of the International Residency Program, representing the Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid.
Winner of the National Playwriting Showcase and the 2023 Literary Awards for his play Esto podría durar y durar y durar y durar y durar. Recipient of the 85th Gabriela Mistral Awards. He has been an artist-in-residence at GORKI Theater (Berlin), KVS (Brussels), Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (Vilnius), Giornate del Respiro (Sardinia, Italy), Teatro Cantiere Florida and PARC: Performing Arts Research Centre (Florence, Italy), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and Watermill Center (New York).
This year he was invited to FOCO-Chile at the Avignon Festival, where he presented his current project. He is currently writing his new novel, which will be published by Penguin Random House. He is also the guest artist at the CAMPUS: Paulo Silva e Cunha residency in Porto, Portugal, where he will begin his new stage project.