The Lápiz de Mina Dramaturgy Festival celebrates 10 years of programming, with contest winners and various activities.

The playwriting festival, directed by Camila Le Bert, since its birth in 2013 has supported the dissemination of playwriting, both national and international, by women and diversity in theater creation and production.

Organizers Camila Le-Bert, Ana Corbalán, Alessandra Massardo, Álvaro Ágreda, Daniela Contreras Bocic

Activities Room N2

My 20 Nov | 9pm | Room N2
17.2 Kilometers. There is something in the streets of Puerto Montt that connects you directly with Puerto Varas by Javiera Hendel.
It tells the story of Manuel, a man who has just begun to live his dream in the presidency of Chile. The work presents a secret and forbidden love story at the time, going back to a love relationship between two historical figures of the 19th century, Manuel Montt and Antonio Varas.
Direction Bale Guerrero. | Cast: Matías Catalan, Gara Francois, Esteban González, Catalina Manríquez, Javiera Hendel, Macarena Núñez | Production: Sol d Chile, Carla Flores. | Sound design: Cristóbal Encina. | Stage production: Catalina Manríquez. | Research advice: Francisca Corominas
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Ju 21 Nov | 9pm | Room N2
The Night of the Backs by Larissa Contreras
Carolina, a criminal defense lawyer for minors, will discover the vagaries of destiny when Cristóbal, a teenager who has just escaped from a detention center of the National Juvenile Service, goes in search of her. Throughout the meeting, Carolina will unravel the true reasons why the boy has come to her house.
Direction Marcelo Leonart | Cast Ítalo de la Cruz, Ana Carolina Lizama, Larissa Contreras Briones
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Fri Nov 22 | 9pm | Room N2
The name of the street where I lived by Emiliana Zapata
The work tells us the love story between Mauri and Álvaro, two young people who cannot get together to live said love. Death and secrets immerse us in different versions of the same story with a sad ending.
Direction Emiliana Zapata | Cast Víctor Villaseca, Juan Gálvez, Bastián Contreras | Technician Felipe Lavín
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Activities Room C2

Ju 21 Nov | 7pm | Room C2
Infinite Trama: The strength of writing in threes.
Talk about the collective writing model and the creative processes of the Argentine-Chilean company Trama Infinita, made up of playwrights María Paula del Olmo, Carolina Sturla and Daniela Contreras Bocic. They received the ARTEI 2023 award for their work “The Infinite Version”, performing four seasons to date at the Beckett Theater; The Kairós method and Timbre 4. They obtained a writing-in-residence scholarship for their second piece “ANAcronía de un memoria” through Iberescena and Espacio TBK (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

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Fri Nov 22 | 7pm | Room C2
Launch of the Book Writing from the Edge. Anthology of regional playwrights. Edited by Dramaturgas Chilenas, published by Oximorón.
The compiled texts are: Hortensia by Ingrid Fierro Torres; Damages to third parties by Paulina Torres Cárdenas; The Snails by Joanna Mellado Flores; Bombal, may the pen not fall by Dayán Guerrero Montiel; Suet Ball by Astrid Q. Fuentealba; Night fog by Carolina Jara Montecinos; Ashes. Twenty burns and scars by Claudia Cordero Herrera; Kutún or the Diaguita Winter by Claudia Hernández López; Desarraigo, from the verb to uproot or uproot by Andrea Pereda Negroni; Stealing with a son at the table by Constanza Bustos Castillo; and Your Fingers by Leyla Selman.