DUELO, Olivier&Thümler
DUELO
Olivier&Thümler
3 and 4 September
8.00pm
55 minutes
Auditório, Central Elétrica
DUELO is a tribute to the women who were detained and disappeared. An attempt to welcome dead voices, to acknowledge their ghostly moment, and to count on them in order to resume a conversation about a time marked by disappearance and catastrophe. On stage, there is a specter that returns again and again to the present because it wants to speak and engage in a duel. A monologue that seeks to make the ghost speak and to host it in an impossible scene – to be present within indifference, to allow the voice of a disappeared woman to radically question us once more.
Artistic Info
Direction: Constanza Thümler, Angelo Olivier
Playwright: Rodrigo Salazar Morales
Cast: Nona Fernández
Voice: Luz Jiménez
Music Composition: Sebastián Carrasco
Lighting Design: Constanza Thümler, Angelo Olivier
Visuals: Kurt Malonnek
Costume Design: Rocío Monasterio
Support
Ministério de la Cultura de Chile
Bio
Olivier&Thümler began its experimental work in 2019, proposing a convergence of poetry, theater, and politics, based on the question “¿DÓNDE ESTÁN?”.
This question is central to the collective’s work, especially in the development of its namesake project “¿DÓNDE ESTÁN?”, a tragic-political trilogy written by Rodrigo Morales, consisting of three plays that explore a memory of political struggle led by women: “OLEAJE”, dedicated to Marta Ugarte Román, and “DUELO”, in memory of women who suffered political violence while pregnant.
The artistic collective aims to question and decipher the tragic nature of history, to revisit forgotten questions, and to delve into almost imperceptible episodes or political specters that allow for the staging of a contemporary, hostile, and dissident language.
