As extreme right-wing leadership encourages rising class divisions all over the world, one of Chile’s most renowned directors takes the bull by its horns in this masterfully crafted political satire.
Entrance
€ 18,-
Duration
75 minutes
Language
Spanish with English subtitles
Location
Grand Theatre
Accessibility
Wheelchair accessible
This performance is accessible for wheelchairs. Please contact us for more information.
Political word wizard Guillermo Calderón, one of Chile’s most important writers and directors, returns with the sharp wit we’ve come to love. In a Chilean post-authoritarian wasteland, a woman is given a cow. Not the most practical gift, but she decides to make the most of it. She desperately needs money, so she’s thinking of milking it and selling the milk, or maybe it would be better to just kill the cow and sell it to the butcher. In a strange turn of events, the cow suddenly seems of interest to the police because it might belong to a criminal gang, and the woman needs to consider every possible option on what to do with this damned cow to not endanger herself. Rich with snappy dialogues and dark humor, VACA (meaning ‘Cow’) is an uncompromisingly urgent performance which delves into the complex authoritarian divisions of classes, 50 years after the dictatorship in Chile.
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A rigorously experimental theater artist who is also a screenwriter ("Neruda"), Calderón is inexorably drawn to those points where art and politics uneasily intersect.
The new play VACA by renowned playwright and director Guillermo Calderón will have its world premiere on August 25 at the Kunstfest in Weimar, Germany. In January 2024, the creative process was presented during Platea, a week for programmers of the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil. After its premiere in Germany, VACA will be showcased at Noorderzon. The group first came together for their production of ESCUELA in 2013. This was followed by the productions DRAGÓN and COLINA.
Credits:
Cast: Luis Cerda, Camila Brito, Francisca Lewin Integral design: Manuela Mege Musical composition: Ximena Sánchez Artistic production: María Paz González Direction assistant: Ximena Sánchez Playwright and director: Guillermo Calderón Coproduction: Fundación Teatro a Mil, ArtsEmerson Collaborators: Goethe-Institut, Noorderzon / Grand Theatre Groningen, Nationaltheater Weimar
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