A look at the history of the painful case of the young man who ended up dismembered in 2007 in the Puente Alto commune. 18 years after its premiere and with countless performances, tours and awards, the production returns to GAM in its original format to commemorate its importance as a historical archive and exercise in memory.

In April 2013, and after another seven investigations, the Puente Alto Guarantee Court definitively closed the process of the crime of Hans Pozo, the controversial dismemberment of a young man that occurred in 2006. The iconic event, which filled the media, was picked up in 2007 by the Teatro La Nacional company to stage H.P., a play written by Luis Barrales and directed by Isidora Stevenson, which after multiple seasons and coinciding with the dismissal of the case, it returns to the stage 18 years after its premiere.

The violence and brutality of the story and the treatment given to it by the media and public opinion impacted the company. This is how Isidora Stevenson remembers it today: "we imagined the versions, the different perspectives, narratives that each of those involved with the life of Hans Pozo would embody. Then came Barrales' words and everything else. And here we continue, returning to Hans Pozo because things seem to have not changed."

With a simple staging where words and bodies try to give different perspectives on this contemporary tragedy, the production returns to GAM after 12 years, where in 2013 it was presented at BiblioGAM. Its protagonists describe it as a painful and poetic work. A fragmented story, like the dismembered body of Hans Pozo.

“Theatre also has a social function, we found this fact tremendously attractive to talk about other things, such as the phenomenon of resilience, about how we are capable, or not, of moving forward despite a context,” explains María José Bello, who plays the ill-fated boy's mother.

"The reassessment of H.P. is always a challenge. It is to look again at a work from another historical moment, another Chile, but it is also a reflection of who we were and the questions we asked ourselves 18 years ago. Despite this time that has passed, the marginality, poverty and violence that street children experience remains the same or worse. Hans Pozo is above all a street child. It is the tragedy of his life and his death that becomes a way of looking and returning to think about them. And from this, expose the possible perspectives of each of those involved. Also reflect on other things such as theater, representation or the bourgeois condition of those who represent history," Stevenson concludes.

Dramaturgy: Luis Barrales | Director: Isidora Stevenson | Cast: María José Bello, Max Salgado, Evelyn Ortiz, Fernanda Salazar, Rodrigo Soto | Original music: Daniel Marabolí | Comprehensive Design: Fernando Milagros | Head Technician: Yoshiaki Kobayashi | Production: Javiera Vio | Production assistant: Almendra Ovalle

“Despite this time that has passed, the marginality, poverty and violence that street children experience remains the same or worse. Hans Pozo is above all a street child. It is the tragedy of their life and death that becomes a way of looking and thinking about them again.”

— Isidora Stevenson, director.