Abrons Arts Center presents Brooklyn-based theater company Caborca’s adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel of the same name, a harrowing tale of fascism and its aftermath. More…
The year is 1973. In Chile, a group of young poets meets to write, argue, critique, and flirt. Days later, the government collapses and the president is shot. Amidst the brutality, one poet rises to fame as a skywriting daredevil—and, possibly, a killer. The drama unfolds in Caborca’s adaptation of Bolaño’s wrenching tale of political protest. The work weaves the author’s memories of life (and death) under Pinochet’s American-backed dictatorship into a perverse, seductive noir of urgent political necessity.
See it if you're game for ruminative ambitious, multimedia exploration of mind-bending work of RBolaño; for fresh/fraught take on political in/actiom
Don't see it if you can't with experimental theater; if you need narrative clarity & character-driven drama; if you need every mystery to be solved
See it if Innovative, poltical/social theatre done by amazingly talented theater company
Don't see it if Don't like to think
See it if like Bolano
Don't see it if don't want to think about terror