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Prospects for Chile: New president, new constitution, continuing turmoil
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For Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón, political theater is as much an investigation into a cause as it is an exploration into a mode of working. Artistic questions are inseparable from the societal conflicts and conundrums that give rise to them, as anyone who has seen “Neva,” “Diciembre,”“Villa” or another of his conceptually austere, theatrically playful works can attest.
The ethic is admirable: Without creative self-scrutiny, without examining how theatrical forms and collaborative methods might unwittingly shore up the status quo, there can be no progress or liberation.
In “The Return of the Dragon,” a brief yet potent video essay produced by Santiago’s Fundación Teatro a Mil, Calderón meditates on the relationship between politics and arts, the efficacy of political theater, and the role of the artist in times of social upheaval. The subject of the film, streaming this weekend in a co-presentation by REDCAT (Calderón’s main Los
Cuba’s Revolutionary Square got a new name on Google Maps. It didn’t mention the rebels Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald © ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/AFP/TNS An almost empty Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, on May 1, 2020.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico For a few hours, Cuba’s storied Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro once gave hourslong speeches to the masses, had a different name on Google Maps this week: Freedom Plaza.
A group of Cubans on the island and in the diaspora launched a campaign to change the name of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana to the Plaza de la Libertad and succeeded, though only temporarily.
An almost empty Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. A group of Cubans on the island and in the diaspora launched a campaign to change the name of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana to the Plaza de la Libertad – and succeeded, though only temporarily. AFP via Getty Images/TNS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: For a few hours, Cuba’s storied Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro once gave hourslong speeches to the masses, had a different name on Google Maps this week: Freedom Plaza.
A group of Cubans on the island and in the diaspora launched a campaign to change the name of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana to the Plaza de la Libertad – and succeeded, though only temporarily.
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