Theatre
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by: Gabriela Olguín | Cast: Gabriela Olguín, Atenea Lagos, Leo Álvarez, Sergio Bravo, José Zambelli, Daniel Zambelli, María Olga Matte, Jacqueline Rojas and Camilo Ramírez. Aleph School: Rubén Casanova, Fernanda Badilla, Bárbara Espinoza, Fabián Sepúlveda and Jorge Patricio Zúñiga | Choreography: Sylvie Miqueu | Musicians: Ignacio Hernández, Javiera Abufhele and Tomás Edwards.
Gabriela Olguín
Director
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
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.
“A magnificent play in which the dreams and words of theater come together with politics - where ideas become actions - for the best”.
—Le Monde
“Outlandish actors act, dance and sing in scenes from the life of Salvador Allende, showing a thousand sides to him and helping us get to know him better”.
—Pariscope
“You never forget some deaths. Salvador Allende offered a way out, based on love and revolution, in a society where a class struggle without force and bloodshed was impossible. A magnificent play in which the dreams and words of theater come together with politics - where ideas become actions – for the best”.
-Le Monde
—It is a play that has been highly acclaimed in France - where it has had several different runs - for its combination of theatrical elements and milestones from Chile’s political history. “It is one of the most extraordinary cases that I have seen and heard of in my lifetime that really helps us understand transformation in the world, taking real life into the world of theater”, said French sociologist Alain Touraine about the production.
—It is an opportunity to see a piece from the repertoire of Oscar Castro - actor, playwright and director, and founder and teacher at Teatro Aleph - on stage.
—It is an opportunity to get to find out about another side of Salvador Allende’s life through the outlandish characters’ acting, singing and dancing.
—Check out Teatro Aleph’s official channel in French on YouTube.
—Watch the trailer of the French version of the play on YouTube.
On Instagram, oscarcastroaleph
On Facebook, teatro.aleph.9
El 11 de septiembre de Salvador Allende
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Written by Oscar Castro | Directed by Gabriela Olguín
- Chile
- Spanish
- 90 minutes
- + 10 años
One of the most acclaimed plays by Teatro Aleph - the iconic company in France directed by Oscar Castro – is brought back to the stage by the cast of Teatro Aleph Chile and director Gabriela Olguín.
A playwright ends up locked in a theater after everyone else has left. Alone and surrounded by the props from different plays, he encounters some of the characters from the past who are always in his memory, who want to be resurrected and live new lives full of comedy and tragedy. The events of a long-gone September 11 come to the surface, as well as the emblematic figure of Salvador Allende, who carries with him the dreams of a whole nation searching for justice and freedom.
Premiered in 1996 by Teatro Aleph in Paris, this play - written by the company’s founder, Oscar Castro, and directed by now deceased Egyptian director Adel Hakim – returns to the stage with the cast of Teatro Aleph Chile.
This version is directed by Gabriela Olguín and performed at the Julieta Salon, a venue in La Cisterna, Santiago that belongs to the group.
El 11 de septiembre de Salvador Allende
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Written by Oscar Castro | Directed by Gabriela Olguín
- Chile
- Spanish
- 90 minutes
- + 10 años
One of the most acclaimed plays by Teatro Aleph - the iconic company in France directed by Oscar Castro – is brought back to the stage by the cast of Teatro Aleph Chile and director Gabriela Olguín.
A playwright ends up locked in a theater after everyone else has left. Alone and surrounded by the props from different plays, he encounters some of the characters from the past who are always in his memory, who want to be resurrected and live new lives full of comedy and tragedy. The events of a long-gone September 11 come to the surface, as well as the emblematic figure of Salvador Allende, who carries with him the dreams of a whole nation searching for justice and freedom.
Premiered in 1996 by Teatro Aleph in Paris, this play - written by the company’s founder, Oscar Castro, and directed by now deceased Egyptian director Adel Hakim – returns to the stage with the cast of Teatro Aleph Chile.
This version is directed by Gabriela Olguín and performed at the Julieta Salon, a venue in La Cisterna, Santiago that belongs to the group.
By Teatro Aleph Chile | Directed by: Gabriela Olguín | Cast: Gabriela Olguín, Atenea Lagos, Leo Álvarez, Sergio Bravo, José Zambelli, Daniel Zambelli, María Olga Matte, Jacqueline Rojas and Camilo Ramírez. Aleph School: Rubén Casanova, Fernanda Badilla, Bárbara Espinoza, Fabián Sepúlveda and Jorge Patricio Zúñiga | Choreography: Sylvie Miqueu | Musicians: Ignacio Hernández, Javiera Abufhele and Tomás Edwards.
Gabriela Olguín
Director
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
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.
“A magnificent play in which the dreams and words of theater come together with politics - where ideas become actions - for the best”.
—Le Monde
“Outlandish actors act, dance and sing in scenes from the life of Salvador Allende, showing a thousand sides to him and helping us get to know him better”.
—Pariscope
“You never forget some deaths. Salvador Allende offered a way out, based on love and revolution, in a society where a class struggle without force and bloodshed was impossible. A magnificent play in which the dreams and words of theater come together with politics - where ideas become actions – for the best”.
-Le Monde
—It is a play that has been highly acclaimed in France - where it has had several different runs - for its combination of theatrical elements and milestones from Chile’s political history. “It is one of the most extraordinary cases that I have seen and heard of in my lifetime that really helps us understand transformation in the world, taking real life into the world of theater”, said French sociologist Alain Touraine about the production.
—It is an opportunity to see a piece from the repertoire of Oscar Castro - actor, playwright and director, and founder and teacher at Teatro Aleph - on stage.
—It is an opportunity to get to find out about another side of Salvador Allende’s life through the outlandish characters’ acting, singing and dancing.
—Check out Teatro Aleph’s official channel in French on YouTube.
—Watch the trailer of the French version of the play on YouTube.
On Instagram, oscarcastroaleph
On Facebook, teatro.aleph.9