Reading of Guillermo Calderon’s VILLA
PICA TBA:13 is an exhibition that ran on Sunday, September 15, 2013 that featured the Reading of Guillermo Calderon’s VILLA and a panel discussion, The Past in the Present: Young Chileans and the Legacy of Pinochet.
In Guillermo Calderón’s Villa (2011), three young women debate the future of the site of a former villa turned into a torture barracks by the military dictatorship. Originally performed inside the infamous Villa Grimaldi, this “spare, intense” play by one of Chilean theatre’s fiercest new literary voices grapples with the legacy of atrocity using “stark lyricism and dreamlike imagery” (LA Times).
VILLA was originally produced as co-production between Teatro Playa and Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival. Curated & Produced by Ruth Wikler-Luker/Boom Arts
Panel: The Past in the Present
Young Chileans and the Legacy of Pinochet
How are a new generation of Chileans—including the children of activists targeted by Pinochet and other younger artists, journalists, and activists—making sense of their shared past within a post-Pinochet climate? Join Villa playwright Guillermo Calderón (via Skype), and Amalia Gladhart (Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon) for a discussion curated and moderated by Ruth Wikler-Luker (Boom Arts). Discussion followed by a reception.
Presented by PICA and Boom Arts
