Babel

Oscar Stuardo is a cult figure in the world of theater, but unknown to most. As a director he edited contemporary classics and his own texts, avant-garde dramaturgy developed from 1957 until his death in 1998. As a teacher he trained generations of actors, including María Izquierdo, Alejandro Goic, Roxana Campos and Aldo Parodi. Almost 20 years after his death, Pablo Striano rescues and makes his work visible by premiering Babel, a text inspired by biblical history.

The characters seek to build the Tower of Babel that will allow them to reach God. The task exposes his ambition, unleashing conflicts of interests and revealing a conflict between science and religion. Babel is a political text written in the 80s, which also talks about environmental and language crises, because in the biblical story the mission fails when they begin to speak different languages, preventing them from understanding each other. Stuardo addresses this by fragmenting and disarticulating language. This aspect is one of the emphases of Striano's staging, along with a political reading of human arrogance. 

Direction: Pablo Striano Benavides
Dramaturgy: Oscar Stuardo
Sound design: Manuel Figueroa
Cast: Ximena Rivas, Alejandro Trejo, Juan Pablo Miranda, Vicente Ruíz, Mónica Illanes, Max Meriño, Sergio Smied, Mauricio Aravena, Carlos Briones.
Set and lighting design: Marcelo Parada
Dramaturgist: Andrea Franco
Costumes: Jorge Chino González
Producer: Pablo Striano