One cold winter night, a character (Rodrigo Pérez) is visited by dinosaurs. And then they disappear. This is enough to make you obsessed with the idea of contacting them and having them help you answer a fundamental question: How do you learn to die? The future terrifies us and the extinction of the species, too.

"There are dinosaurs looking out my window. I recognize a velociraptor, a diplodocus, an ankylosaur, a triceratops and a pterodactyl. But there are more."

A sound-performative project that seeks to put into practice the dramaturgical text of Raúl Riquelme. In it, a character is proposed who is terrified by the idea of the future and how we are prepared to face disappearance as a species. Faced with this, he resorts to invoking the ghosts of the dinosaurs through the ouija.

Dinosaurs in my window exposes a voice that claims to see these extinct animals and needs answers. He wants to know why he sees them. He longs to know if they reveal a sign of imminent human extinction. A restless voice that wishes the dinosaurs would teach it how to die.

"Almost always when this type of content is addressed they tend to have a more scientific, more ecological perspective about our end as a species, but this work is a simpler game. It questions what happens when one imagines one's own end, without so much external information, what happens when one questions the day of one's own death, with all the poetry that accompanies those images," says the director, Daniel Marabolí.

The work, of a deeply vocal and sonic nature, always aims to propose an active dialogue between listening, sound and the performing act, awakening in the audience the curiosity to understand the voice, its behaviors and its sound from different perspectives.

"The audience is going to be a participant in an entertaining and sound show. It is playful, rhythmic, and proposes small spaces of humor, not the humor of laughter, but the one that generates that small smile that leaves a trail of reflection in one. In essence, the work gives an account of the imagination of a character in the attempt to give answers, to give meaning, to these dinosaurs that look like them looking out of his window," he adds.

The first version of Raúl Riquelme's text was awarded at the playwriting exhibition “Delirios en Cautiverio” organized by the Chilean National Theater in 2020.

“This play is a simpler game. One questions what happens when one imagines one's own end, without so much external information, what happens when one questions the day of one's own death, with all the poetry that accompanies those images.”

— Daniel Maraboli, director.

Project funded by the National Fund for the Promotion and Development of the Performing Arts, call 2024.