This Tuesday, January 3, Fundación Imagen de Chile called international media correspondents to a special press conference to present the 2023 program of the International Festival Teatro a Mil, which celebrates its 30th anniversary and will be taking place throughout Chile during the month of January. Renowned national artists spoke with the correspondents in charge of telling the world about this festival that crosses borders.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the most important performing arts festival in Latin America, Imagen de Chile together with Fundación Teatro a Mil, held a conference at the Crowne Plaza Santiago Hotel with the presence of Carmen Romero, director of the festival; Rossana Dresdner, director of Imagen de Chile; and Chilean artists Mon Laferte, Paulina García and Alfredo Castro.
At the meeting, this year's program was presented, which includes 130 shows throughout the country, with international presentations from 19 countries. In addition, special events will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile. The conference ended with a visit to the exhibition of the artist Mon Laferte, specially created for this edition of the festival, at the Gabriela Mistral Center (GAM).
At the event, Chilean singer-songwriter Mon Laferte gave a tour of the three works she will be presenting at Teatro a Mil: the inauguration of a mural at the National Stadium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état; the visual art exhibition she mounted at GAM; and an exclusive concert she will present at the Quinta Vergara.
"It is a special concert. It is called Sola con mis Monstruos and it is a more acoustic format, I will be accompanied by a string quartet and my monsters, which are these giant dolls made with my hands and an incredible work team, including my sister. As part of my activities in this Teatro a Mil. I feel very honored to participate and to be able to do my bit," said Mon Laferte.
The director of the Teatro a Mil International Festival, Carmen Romero, highlighted the singer's mural to refer to the ideological background of the festival in its 30th edition after 50 years of the 1973 coup. "We begin today with this beautiful artistic milestone, this mural painted by Mon Laferte and Mono Gonzalez to mark this special year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the coup. We wanted to set that milestone from the arts because we all want that 'never again', so from the arts we paint, we do it and we speak through drama", argued the director.
The Chilean actor, Alfredo Castro, spoke in depth about his participation, which consists of an interpretation of Juan Radrigán's play, Hechos Consumados. "It is an emblematic Chilean play, I would say a Chilean classic, and we have replayed it and realized how relevant it is. It is a work that was written during the dictatorship, by the dictatorship, against the dictatorship and, nevertheless, today it takes on a dimension that has left me perplexed listening to the work. It touches on feminism, private property, the constituent assembly, elections, poverty, misery and climate change, it is as if Radrigán had been a seer", explained Castro.
Correspondents took notes on the extensive billboard, which this year has a strong international presence, with highlights such as Sun & Sea (Lithuania), a subway beach that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2019 and will be installed in the heart of Santiago, and Saurian and the witnesses of outer space (France), a giant dinosaur that will burst into the streets. In addition to a selection of almost 100 national works with contingent themes: migratory movements, institutional violence, native peoples, powerful women in the performing arts and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état.
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