CUERVO

El Cuervo (the raven in Spanish) is the nickname given to a Chilean man of theatre with an extraordinary journey: Óscar Castro Ramírez. Founder of the mythical Teatro Aleph, this playwright left, at the heart of a prolific body of work, an autobiographical account where he recounts his experience in concentration camps under the Pinochet dictatorship in 1973. Today, his two sons, Cosme and Oscar, stage this posthumous text in a form as poignant as it is inventive, nourished by their trip to Chile tracing their father's footsteps.

Through a staging combining reading, documentary footage, and shadow theatre, the show, illustrated on stage by Jeanne Frenkel, celebrates the power of the imagination. In captivity, el Cuervo invents a world behind barbed wire. Every week, a play is born in the refectory: a vital rendezvous that transforms the daily life of hundreds of prisoners.

With this intimate investigation, the two brothers paint the portrait of a man who made theatre an act of resistance.