24th La Reina Theater Festival

24th La Reina Theater Festival

• Vicente Bianchi Room, Santa Rita 1153, La Reina.
• January 6 to 8 and 13 to 15 – 9:00 p.m.
• General Admission: $ 7,000. Students, senior citizens and City Card: $ 5,000. Via Eventrid.
• Limited capacity, use of mask and mandatory mobility pass.

The festival includes 6 works full of humor and irony that will make you laugh and reflect on the pandemic and Chile today.

Great actors and actresses will be present at the 24th Theater Version: “Sin contacto” with Rodrigo Muñoz and Renato Munster; “Diario de un Loco” starring Miguel Ángel Bravo; “Las Reinas de la Calle” with Verónica González and Carmen Prieto and “Bajo Terapia” with Rolando Valenzuela, Ramón Farías, Mónica Aguirre and Carolina Carrasco, among other outstanding works.

Program

Thursday January 6: “No Contact”
Cast: Rodrigo Muñoz and Renato Munster
Authors: Fernando Schmidt, Cristián Ibarzabal.
Director: Vanessa Miller

It is the story of two characters, fanatized by their way of seeing the world, who oppose each other in a two-by-two venue, in a race against time and in a crazy comedy. Hired to play Melchor and Gaspar, they never imagined that waiting for Baltasar could be the last thing they did in their lives. How far would you go to defend your way of seeing life?

Friday, January 7: “Oral Perversions within Everyone’s Reach”
Author: Jorge Díaz
Cast: Verónica González, Ramón Farías, Mónica Aguirre, Rolando Valenzuela

Short, acid and humorous texts, those that the author calls “brevity” and “laughter”. Another example of Jorge Díaz’s ingenuity, who as always investigates the human condition with barefoot texts, even on such “serious” topics as death.

Saturday January 8: “Diary of a Fool”
Author: Nikolái Gógol
Direction: Edmundo Villarroel
With: Miguel Ángel Bravo

Aksanti Ivanovic is a public employee who suffers from schizophrenia and adds a paranoia that consumes him, however, within his madness, he manages to reveal a reality until now existing about those large minorities who have no space in this world. The reality of public administration is bitter, full of unrealizable dreams where one forces oneself to work for a better quality of life. The text does not vary. Its content is contemporary, identifiable. A challenge for those who think they are capable. Diario de un Loco is performed in a bare space “black chamber” where no distraction diverts the audience’s attention more than the performance and the music. This montage is in dialogue with Tshaikowski’s 6th Pathetic Symphony. It is a delight for the ear. Drama, romanticism, tragedy, comedy, farce, surround this montage.

Thursday January 13: “Under Therapy”
Author: Matías del Federico
With: Rolando Valenzuela, Verónica González, Ramón Farías, Mónica Aguirre, Félix Villar, Carolina Carrasco

A therapeutically realistic comedy that tells the story of 3 odd couples with an unexpected ending. A story very attached to everyday life that will unleash confessions, claims, truths and lies, difficult to stop. Throughout a very particular group therapy session, the three couples will feel compelled to deploy movements and act out their hidden game.

Friday January 14: “The Queens of the Street”
With: Verónica González and Carmen Prieto

The work established in current women’s roles in a social and cultural context, aims to dissolve certain gender stereotypes with passages that shake, identifying the public with reflection, thought, behaviors of the everyday trivial and domestic. On the other hand, the touch of sarcastic humor with moments of music cannot be absent from the excellent interpretation of both voices to the sound of boleros and ballads, a mixture of insolence in the style of cabaret theater, an intimate format of interaction to do of the action the best sample of talents with extensive trajectories.

Saturday January 15: “Moscow”
Author: Mario Diament
Cast: Shlomit Baytelman, Verónica González, Carolina Carrasco

The Prózorov sisters – Masha, Olga and Irina – live with their brother Andrei, in a rural house in deep Russia. A year after the death of the father, the duel ends, and the family trusts in the beginning of a new life in Moscow, where he spent his childhood. Olga, the oldest, teaches in a secondary school; Masha finds herself trapped in an unhappy marriage and Irina, the youngest, fantasizes about going out to work as a way to give her life meaning. The original work has 14 characters, but the great protagonist is time. The time that the youth of the three sisters devours, the time (particularly the new century) that pushes Russia towards modernity, and the time that has stopped in the lethargic life of the province. The only escape from this cruel melancholy is, for the three sisters, to dream of returning to Moscow. Life there is sumptuous and exciting, quite the opposite of the hopeless reality of provincial life.

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