Theatre
Written by: Francisco Sánchez and Tryo Teatro Banda | Music: Daniella Rivera, Diego Chamorro, Martín Feuerhake and Francisco Sánchez | Cast: Alfredo Becerra, Javier Bolívar, Diego Chamorro, Martín Feuerhake and Daniella Rivera | Costume design: Pablo de la Fuente | Costume creation and props: Nicol Salgado | Lighting: Matías Ulibarry | Sound: Julio Gennari | Technical assistant: Baltazar Sánchez | Executive producer: Carolina González | Play coproduced by Tryo Teatro Banda/M100/TRM/TMO | With thanks to: the Cygnus Group
Francisco Sánchez
Playwright and director
At the heart of Tryo Teatro Banda
This actor, musician, researcher, playwright, teacher and director founded Tryo Teatro Banda with Carolina González. They developed a theatrical style they call ‘contemporary minstrels’, bringing back the art of the minstrels of old by combining theater, music and literature in a nomadic format to tell the story of different moments in Chile’s history. Their shows have toured Chile, as well as Latin America and Europe.
Tryo Teatro Banda
The company
Modern minstrels
This independent and nomadic theater company started out in Santiago de Chile in the year 2000 with three main aims: to put on productions by Chilean playwrights or about Chilean issues, to take their plays to places that are not normally on the artistic circuit and to combine the art of acting with literature and live music. Their plays include La expulsión de los Jesuitas, ¡Parlamento!, Afrochileno, La Tirana, Pedro de Valdivia: la gesta inconclusa, Cautiverio Felis (sic), La Araucana, Jemmy Button, O´Higgins, un hombre en pedazos, Tragicomedia del Ande and Foster, el observatorio del cerro Tupahue.
—Take a look at Carolina González and Francisco Sánchez’ interview with Tiempo de Escena, where they talk about their post-pandemic projects.
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Magalhães, a 500 años de la primera vuelta al mundo
By Tryo Teatro Banda | Directed by Francisco Sánchez | Codirected by Eduardo Irrazábal
- Chile
- Spanish
- 65 minutes
A story of distrust, betrayal, hunger, scurvy, shipwrecks and rebellion, all of which marked the discovery of our iconic Magellan Strait.
Spices like cinnamon, pepper and cloves were the most lucrative currency in the world at the end of the fifteenth century and Spain and Portugal fought for them to the death. As a result, sailor Fernão Magalhães set out to lead a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. To do so, he had to locate a mysterious passage through the American continent: the same that went down in history as the Magellan Strait. It was not simple though: distrust, betrayal, danger, terrifying and formidable characters from mythology, hunger, scurvy, shipwrecks, desertions, fights, rebelliousness, successes and failures all came together in an attempt to make the expedition fail.
Recalling the minstrels of old, Tryo Teatro Banda tunes up their musical instruments and warms up their voices and bodies to tell a passionate story that includes the first encounter between foreign sailors and the inhabitants of the southernmost part of Chile.
Magalhães, a 500 años de la primera vuelta al mundo
By Tryo Teatro Banda | Directed by Francisco Sánchez | Codirected by Eduardo Irrazábal
- Chile
- Spanish
- 65 minutes
A story of distrust, betrayal, hunger, scurvy, shipwrecks and rebellion, all of which marked the discovery of our iconic Magellan Strait.
Spices like cinnamon, pepper and cloves were the most lucrative currency in the world at the end of the fifteenth century and Spain and Portugal fought for them to the death. As a result, sailor Fernão Magalhães set out to lead a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. To do so, he had to locate a mysterious passage through the American continent: the same that went down in history as the Magellan Strait. It was not simple though: distrust, betrayal, danger, terrifying and formidable characters from mythology, hunger, scurvy, shipwrecks, desertions, fights, rebelliousness, successes and failures all came together in an attempt to make the expedition fail.
Recalling the minstrels of old, Tryo Teatro Banda tunes up their musical instruments and warms up their voices and bodies to tell a passionate story that includes the first encounter between foreign sailors and the inhabitants of the southernmost part of Chile.
Written by: Francisco Sánchez and Tryo Teatro Banda | Music: Daniella Rivera, Diego Chamorro, Martín Feuerhake and Francisco Sánchez | Cast: Alfredo Becerra, Javier Bolívar, Diego Chamorro, Martín Feuerhake and Daniella Rivera | Costume design: Pablo de la Fuente | Costume creation and props: Nicol Salgado | Lighting: Matías Ulibarry | Sound: Julio Gennari | Technical assistant: Baltazar Sánchez | Executive producer: Carolina González | Play coproduced by Tryo Teatro Banda/M100/TRM/TMO | With thanks to: the Cygnus Group
Francisco Sánchez
Playwright and director
At the heart of Tryo Teatro Banda
This actor, musician, researcher, playwright, teacher and director founded Tryo Teatro Banda with Carolina González. They developed a theatrical style they call ‘contemporary minstrels’, bringing back the art of the minstrels of old by combining theater, music and literature in a nomadic format to tell the story of different moments in Chile’s history. Their shows have toured Chile, as well as Latin America and Europe.
Tryo Teatro Banda
The company
Modern minstrels
This independent and nomadic theater company started out in Santiago de Chile in the year 2000 with three main aims: to put on productions by Chilean playwrights or about Chilean issues, to take their plays to places that are not normally on the artistic circuit and to combine the art of acting with literature and live music. Their plays include La expulsión de los Jesuitas, ¡Parlamento!, Afrochileno, La Tirana, Pedro de Valdivia: la gesta inconclusa, Cautiverio Felis (sic), La Araucana, Jemmy Button, O´Higgins, un hombre en pedazos, Tragicomedia del Ande and Foster, el observatorio del cerro Tupahue.
—Take a look at Carolina González and Francisco Sánchez’ interview with Tiempo de Escena, where they talk about their post-pandemic projects.
PRODUCE
COLABORA