Italy is participating in the next edition of the Teatro a Mil International Festival in Santiago with Chiara Guidi, playwright, director and theatre actress, as well as founder, together with Romeo and Claudia Castellucci and Paolo Guidi, of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, now Societas, an avant-garde theatre company known for its experimentation.
Thanks to the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago and the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Santiago, Italy will be present at this important event in Chile, with an artist of considerable national and international renown, whose innovative approach to theatre is studied and translated for the impact it generates on the public and for its ability to place the viewer within the context of the events the performance deals with.
Chiara Guidi will be presenting two works: the workshop El método errante y el trabajo de las actrices y actores ante los ojos de las infancias (The Wandering Method. The actor’s work before the eyes of a child) from 4 to 7 January 2025, and the performance of La Tierra de las Lombrices (The Land of Earthworms) from 8 to 11 January 2025 with two performances a day, at 6 and 8 p.m., at the Palacio Cousiño in Santiago.
The “Wandering Method”, through an open and unstructured theatrical form, seeks to involve the audience in a deep reflection on the proposed themes and on the psychology of the characters. The Workshop phase envisaged within the Festival is based on the particular implementation of the Method created to involve the gaze of children, with the aim of making the spontaneous capacity for initiative of children an integral part of the development of the action. The subsequent theatrical performance therefore aims at bringing to the stage a work not defined by specific contours, as it will be the audience composed of children to direct the course of events and the ending.
The chosen work, “The Land of Earthworms”, is inspired by Euripides’ Alcestis and touches on the themes of memory, trauma, identity and the relationship between past and present, in harmony with the title of this edition of the festival, the 32nd: “MÁS HUMANIDAD”.
