Radioteatro
Available on Teatroamil.tv
Directed and adapted by: Néstor Cantillana | Cast: Néstor Cantillana, Gonzalo Muñoz Lerner, Francisco Reyes, Pablo Schwarz, Macarena Teke, Paulina Urrutia, Gabriel Urzúa and Carmen Zabala | Music: Diego González | Sound and mixing: Nicolás Moreno | Producer: Inés Bascuñán | Coproduced by: Colectivo The Braiers and the Teatro a Mil Foundation.
Néstor Cantillana
Director
A cinema, theater and TV talent
Having studied at the Fernando Gonzalez Theater School, he’s worked on numerous productions, starring in plays such as Hamlet, Calígula, El misántropo, Roberto Zuco, Delirio and Bajo hielo. As a director, he has put on plays by Marguerite Duras, Philipp Löhle, Rafael Spregelburd and Lola Arias. He has also taken part in numerous television series on channels like TVN, Canal 13, Chilevisión and HBO Latin America. In the cinema, he has worked on films like Historias de fútbol by Andrés Wood; Cofralandes by Raúl Ruiz; No by Pablo Larraín and Una mujer fantástica by Sebastian Lelio, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2018. In 2010, he directed the National Playwriting Exhibition
—It’s one of the key works by Egon Wolff, one of the most important and renowned playwrights in twentieth century Chilean theater. Born in 1926, his work focused on social inequality in Chile, on the upper class’s penchant for economic prosperity and on vindicating the poor. In 2013, he won the National Award for the Performing Arts. He died aged 90 in 2016.
—It’s part of the ‘Theater With Your Eyes Closed’ format created by Colectivo The Braiers, adapting a theater script into an audio performance. “It opens the door to researching the multiple possibilities this style offers and to work from home as artists. It allows us to get up close and personal with our audience, as we’re interested in maintaining the connections that create a theatrical experience, in spite of the physical distance imposed on us by the pandemic”, says the group.
—Colectivo The Braiers has been developing productions for five years now by authors who reveal part of the current human condition. Their thought-provoking scripts are brought vibrantly to the stage (and in this case, to the airwaves).
The ‘50s Generation: A group of narrators, poets, playwrights, essayists and critics who came on to the national arts scene radically skeptical of the Chilean life and literature that came before them (looking to overcome the creole literary movement). A hallmark moment was the Writers’ Event held at the University of Concepción in 1958. Although they did not call themselves a movement as such, critics have grouped them together. Among the most outstanding names were narrators José Donoso, Margarita Aguirre, Enrique Lafourcade and Jorge Edwards; poets Enrique Lihn, Jorge Teillier and Armando Uribe Arce and playwrights Sergio Vodanovic, Luis Alberto Heiremans, Alejandro Sieveking and Isidora Aguirre.
Radio theater: This is an art form created through words, sound effects and music that together tell a story that the listener can recreate in detail in their mind. Its golden age globally was in the twenties, thirties and forties, at the height of radio, with its popularity continuing until the seventies in Chile. Worldwide, the most well-known radio theater piece is perhaps The War of the Worlds, written in 1938 by North American actor and director Orson Welles, which tells of an alien invasion’s impact on the world. It was so realistic that it caused widespread panic among its thousands of listeners, who thought the news was real, even though the story was based on the novel of the same name by H.G. Wells.
—Take a look at Egon Wolff’s blog where he sells his watercolors and notes down his thoughts and ideas.
Los invasores
By Colectivo The Braiers Directed by Néstor Cantillana Written by Egon Wolff
- Chile
- 11 pieces lasting between 5 and 6 minutes each
One of Chilean playwright Egon Wolff’s masterpieces is back in a heart-rending piece of radio theater, voiced by some of the country’s most outstanding actors.
Written by Egon Wolff in 1963, this play deals with an upper-class Chilean family’s worst nightmare: the poverty-stricken, and this family’s fear and repulsion of them. The poor, the destitute and the homeless from the other side of the river finally cross this natural divide between ‘us and them’ and start taking over the city. Lucas Meyer, a successful businessman, watches as his house is overrun by a group led by China, a strange homeless man who not only is an eloquent speaker but also seems to know all about this businessman’s shady deals and how they cover up a crime.
This jewel of Chilean theater combines realistic theater with more dreamlike and disturbing elements. Listen to this quick-witted, clever script - that still makes sense and resonates in our times – on your headphones and with your eyes closed.
Directed and adapted by: Néstor Cantillana | Cast: Néstor Cantillana, Gonzalo Muñoz Lerner, Francisco Reyes, Pablo Schwarz, Macarena Teke, Paulina Urrutia, Gabriel Urzúa and Carmen Zabala | Music: Diego González | Sound and mixing: Nicolás Moreno | Producer: Inés Bascuñán | Coproduced by: Colectivo The Braiers and the Teatro a Mil Foundation.
Néstor Cantillana
Director
A cinema, theater and TV talent
Having studied at the Fernando Gonzalez Theater School, he’s worked on numerous productions, starring in plays such as Hamlet, Calígula, El misántropo, Roberto Zuco, Delirio and Bajo hielo. As a director, he has put on plays by Marguerite Duras, Philipp Löhle, Rafael Spregelburd and Lola Arias. He has also taken part in numerous television series on channels like TVN, Canal 13, Chilevisión and HBO Latin America. In the cinema, he has worked on films like Historias de fútbol by Andrés Wood; Cofralandes by Raúl Ruiz; No by Pablo Larraín and Una mujer fantástica by Sebastian Lelio, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2018. In 2010, he directed the National Playwriting Exhibition
—Porque es una de las obras mayores de Egon Wolff, uno de los principales y más reconocidos dramaturgos del teatro chileno del siglo XX. Nacido en 1926, su obra tiene como principal foco la reflexión sobre las desigualdades de la sociedad chilena, la predilección de clase alta por la prosperidad económica y la reivindicación de los desposeídos. En 2013 recibió el Premio Nacional de Artes de la Representación. Murió en 2016, a los 90 años.
—Porque pertenece al formato Teatro para ojos cerrados creado por el Colectivo The Braiers, el que adapta textos teatrales al formato sonoro: “Es una ventana para investigar las múltiples posibilidades que entrega este lenguaje y trabajar como artistas desde nuestras casas, permitiéndonos generar un acercamiento íntimo con los públicos, ya que nos interesa mantener los vínculos que genera la experiencia teatral a pesar de la distancia física que obliga esta crisis sanitaria”, según palabras del grupo.
—Porque el colectivo The Braiers viene desarrollando desde hace un lustro montajes de autores que revelan parte de la condición humana actual. Textos profundos llevados a escena (y en este caso, al audio) de manera dinámica.
Generación del 50: Grupo de narradores, poetas, dramaturgos, ensayistas y críticos que hizo su entrada al escenario de las letras nacionales con un escepticismo radical frente a la vida y a la literatura chilena anterior (buscando la superación del criollismo). Tuvieron como hito los Encuentros de Escritores realizados por la Universidad de Concepción en 1958. Y si bien, no se reconocieron a sí mismos como un movimiento, la crítica los ubicó en un espacio generacional común. Entre los nombres más destacados figuran los narradores: José Donoso, Margarita Aguirre, Enrique Lafourcade y Jorge Edwards; entre los poetas: Enrique Lihn, Jorge Teillier, Armando Uribe Arce; y los dramaturgos: Sergio Vodanovic, Luis Alberto Heiremans, Alejandro Sieveking e Isidora Aguirre.
Radioteatro: Es una pieza artística compuesta por palabras, efectos sonoros y pistas musicales, que en conjunto cuentan una historia de tal forma que quien la escucha puede recrearla con detalle en su mente. Vivió su edad de oro en los años 20, 30 y 40 en todo el mundo, junto con el apogeo de la radio; una popularidad que en Chile se extendió hasta los 70. A nivel mundial, quizá el más conocido es La guerra de los mundos, un radioteatro creado en 1938 por el actor y director estadounidense Orson Welles, que narraba los estragos en todo el mundo causados por una invasión alienígena. Su nivel de realismo fue tal que causó pánico en miles de radioescuchas, quienes pensaron que la noticia era real, pero el relato estaba basado en la novela del mismo nombre de H.G. Wells.
—Revisa el blog que mantuvo Egon Wolff para mostrar sus acuarelas y escribir pensamientos e ideas.
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