Conversations on Playwriting and Social Unrest in Chile.

 

The events will take place on Friday, September 25th and Friday, October 2nd at 12:00pm EST.

The Theatre Arts and Latin American and Latinx Studies Programs at the University of Pennsylvania and Interdram, the Theatrical Platform for New Playwriting, present and invite you to two “Conversations on Playwriting and Social Unrest in Chile.” These events are an extension of the “Interdram Interviews” project, a series of interviews with renowned playwrights working with urgent themes and innovative formats in Chile today. The interviews have been published bimonthly in English and Spanish, alongside translated extracts of the playwrights’ works, on the website www.interdram.cl. The project aims to introduce Chilean playwrights to an English speaking audience and is supported by a 2020 Fondart grant for National Diffusion from the Chilean Ministry for Culture, Arts, and Patrimony.

The event will feature some of Chile’s most outstanding contemporary playwrights including Nona Fernández, Flavia Radrigán, Cristián Ruiz, Ximena Carrera, Pablo Manzi y Eduardo Luna in conversation with scholars Jennifer Joan Thompson (University of Pennsylvania) and Fabián Escalona (The Graduate Center, CUNY). The event will be moderated by Leonardo González.

The conversations will focus on themes related to the authors’ works such as the Mapuche conflict and indigenous rights, the feminist movement, and the ongoing Chile Desperto movement.

In these two virtual English-language roundtables with some of Chile’s most innovative playwrights, we discuss how theatre is responding to the social, environmental, and public health crises confronting Chile. These conversations will introduce us to Chile’s vibrant theatrical scene and illuminate the many parallels between the social unrest in Chile and the U.S.

Friday, September 25 at 12:00 EST- we discuss Chile’s exciting new feminist vanguard and the performance of gender in Chilean theatre. Playwrights Nona Fernández, Flavia Radrigán, and Cristián Ruiz.

The event will be moderated by Leonardo González (NYU) and Jennifer Joan Thompson (University of Pennyslvania). Translation: Bruce Gibbons

Friday, October 2 at 12:00 EST- we discuss indigenous rights and social movements in Chile. Playwrights include Ximena Carrera, Eduardo Luna and Pablo Manzi.

The event will be moderated by Leonardo González (NYU) and Fabián Escalona San Martin (The Graduate Center, CUNY). Translation: Bruce Gibbons

Both events are sponsored by the Theatre Program, Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, Interdram, and the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Patrimony.

Details on live-streaming will be announced soon.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP HERE