General production: María Paz González Durney | Cast: Camila Brito, Luis Cerda, Francisca Lewin | Integral design: Manuela Mege | Musical composition & Direction assistant: Ximena Sánchez | Playwright and director: Guillermo Calderón | Coproduction: Fundación Teatro a Mil, ArtsEmerson | Collaborators: Goethe-Institut Chile, Noorderzon / Grand Theatre Groningen, Nationaltheater Weimar
Guillermo Calderón
Playwright and director
Guillermo Calderon
Playwright, theater director, screenwriter and film director. Academician of the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University of Chile.
As a director and playwright he has originated a line of creations that challenges the audience through their political content and the physical and emotional commitment of the actors. His plays have been presented in countless countries with the best reviews, among them Neva, Clase, Diciembre, Villa, Kuss, B, Beben, Escuela, Mateluna, Goldrausch, Colina, Bavaria. His screenplays for film include The Club, Ema, Neruda, Spider, and The Count (Best Screenplay, Venice Film Biennale, 2023.)
Written and directed by Guillermo Calderón
A group of friends survive by delivering pizzas on motorcycles around Santiago, Chile. Their lives change when they must take care of a sick cow. They could sell it to a butcher or treat it to sell its milk. Little by little, they become immersed in a conflict that can only end in violence.
Three friends survive the post-Covid inflation crisis by delivering pizzas on their motorcycles around Santiago, Chile. One day, one of them decides to help a friend by keeping and caring for a dairy cow in her backyard. The cow has likely been stolen, so no questions are asked. But after a few weeks, the friends realize that no one will ever collect the cow. They immediately begin arguing about what to do with the cow. They consider milking the cow and selling its raw milk. But they eventually receive a strong offer from a local butcher.
They have to make a difficult decision because they are desperate for money, but they have also developed a true love for their cow. In their confusion, they enlist the help of several dubious characters who plunge them deeper into an underworld of paranoia and violence.
A violent ending becomes almost inevitable, but the story is more than a thriller; it is wrapped in a disconcerting mystery, as the characters repeatedly repeat that they live within what they call Cultural Television. The reality in which they live is called into question. The threat may not come from the people who want to kill the cow. The danger could be the real experience of trying to survive as subjects of sophisticated propaganda. In this world of social decay and violence, someone could be advocating for a new regime capable of crushing all the cows and ruling, once again, from military barracks.
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General production: María Paz González Durney | Cast: Camila Brito, Luis Cerda, Francisca Lewin | Integral design: Manuela Mege | Musical composition & Direction assistant: Ximena Sánchez | Playwright and director: Guillermo Calderón | Coproduction: Fundación Teatro a Mil, ArtsEmerson | Collaborators: Goethe-Institut Chile, Noorderzon / Grand Theatre Groningen, Nationaltheater Weimar
Guillermo Calderón
Playwright and director
Guillermo Calderon
Playwright, theater director, screenwriter and film director. Academician of the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University of Chile.
As a director and playwright he has originated a line of creations that challenges the audience through their political content and the physical and emotional commitment of the actors. His plays have been presented in countless countries with the best reviews, among them Neva, Clase, Diciembre, Villa, Kuss, B, Beben, Escuela, Mateluna, Goldrausch, Colina, Bavaria. His screenplays for film include The Club, Ema, Neruda, Spider, and The Count (Best Screenplay, Venice Film Biennale, 2023.)
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