European premier

Vampyr is the third part of the non-human exploration initiated with ‘Estado Vegetal’ and ‘How to Turn to Stone”. With this piece we further the task of imagining a non-anthropocentric and decolonial form of theater making. “Vampyr” appropriates the myth of the European vampire, to propose an imagined mythology: that of a South American vampire.

Vampyr is a mockumentary about stubborn shapeshifting creatures that refuse to obey the mandate of the nature/culture divide. They are half dead, half animal, half alive, half earth and half human. These indeterminate beings wander the wind turbine parks that are erected with no regulation in Chile, sometimes as disoriented bats, sometimes as exhausted night-shift workers. This is a piece about exhaustion and energy, work and rest. A work of delirious black humor, about the relationship with the non-human animals that inhabit our territories and how we relate to their cultures when thinking about our energetic projections for the future.

The work establishes a critical and ironic dialogue between the myth of the European vampire and the reality of the Chilean hematophagous bat, a species that dies in large numbers as a result of wind turbines. Thus, posing a critical perspective on green neo-colonialism: the perpetuation of practices of extraction and appropriation of colonial logic, which persist under the veil of  green energy production (greenwashing).

Bio

Manuela Infante Güell is a Chilean theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and musician. MA in Cultural Analysis at University of Amsterdam. She is well known for offering scenic articulations of contemporary theoretical issues, creating work that stands somewhere between music, theater and literature.  Her plays have been published and translated into English, German, Italian and Portuguese. Her work has toured important theaters and festivals in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. She has produced work with KVS (Belgium), Kai Theater (Belgium), TheaterWorks (Singapore), Schauspielhaus Bochum (Germany), Theater Basel (Switzerland), Kyoto Experiment (Japan), Volkstheater Vienna (Austria), Schauspielhaus Hannover (Germany), FIBA (Buenos Aires), Teatre Nacional de Cataluña (Spain), Nord Nederland Toneel (Holland) amongst others. In 2015 she was the first woman to be appointed director of The National Festival for Dramaturgy in Chile. In 2019 she was the first Chilean theater maker to be invited to the Venice Biennale 2019 with her plays Estado Vegetal and Realismo. That same year she won the Stukemarkt First Prize at 2019 Theatertreffen Festival in Berlin. As a musician she has composed, written and produced two albums with her band Bahía Inútil. Stand Scared (2011) and Bahía Inútil (2015). She has also been in charge of the sound design of many of her works. As a scriptwriter she has worked with renowned Chilean film directors such as Francisca Alegria, Marialy Rivas and Sebastian Lelio

Credits 

Director and Playwright: Manuela Infante
Cast: Marcela Salinas, David Gaete
Production: Carmina Infante Güell
Design: Rocio Hernández
Director’s Assistant and Technical Manager:: Pablo Mois
Training & Choreography: Dian C. Guevara
Sound Design: Manuela Infante
Sound Technician: Víctor Muñoz
Research & Dramaturg: Camila Valladares
Wardrobe:  Elizabeth PérezCo-production: Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Espacio Checoeslovaquia, Centro Cultural de España (Chile), NAVE, Kundura Sahne
Supported by: Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Oxiluz Iluminaciones, Cultura Violeta

Duration 

90′

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