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The Threepenny Opera

Almost a century later, Gonzalo Pinto gathers great figures of Chilean national theater and students from Club de Teatro, UNIACC, and DETUCH, to pay tribute to Fe…

When
Thursday, October 15 to Friday, October 30 · 19:30
Where
Sala Agustín Siré, Santiago
Morandé 750
Price
$8,800 general, $5,500 students and seniors
Organizer
Departamento de Teatro U. de Chile
The Threepenny Opera

✨Next week, "The Threepenny Opera" by the Banda del Alma Company (@bandadelalma), directed by Gonzalo Pinto Guerrero (@gonzalopintoguerrero), arrives at Sala Agustín Siré. Performances run from October 15 to 30, at 19:30, from Thursday to Saturday. Review: In a marginal London, where organized crime and "legal" businesses are increasingly difficult to distinguish, The Threepenny Opera denounces the corruption and hypocrisy of power. Premiered in Berlin in 1928, with dramaturgy by Bertolt Brecht and music by Kurt Weill, it uses black humor, satire, and songs like "Mackie" to break with traditional theater and activate the spectator's critical thinking. Almost a century later, Gonzalo Pinto brings together great figures of Chilean national theater and students from Club de Teatro, UNIACC, and DETUCH to pay tribute to Fernando González, who shaped generations of artists and whose 1988 production is a benchmark of Chilean Theater. The proposal unites the classical training he provided with the social and dialectical content of the present, to bring to the stage the class struggle and the figure of a capitalism…

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