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THE RETURN OF THE ANTIPOET

Nicanor Parra Publishes his Version of King Lear: After 15 Years, the Joker is Back

Theater Review


PROVINCIA KAPITAL: BRECHT’S SUBVERSIVE MUSICAL GOES CHILEAN

(Sept. 10, 2004) “We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.”

German Playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) on Epic Theater, ‘A Short Organum for the Theatre’ (1949).


Film Review


SMOKING MIDGETS, SIMIAN GUNNERS, FLOATING HOUSES: WELL, THAT’S LIFE

The Emil Kusturica Season at Cine Arte Normandie

Welcome to a world where an incredibly energetic soundtrack sets the tempo for some very strange narratives. Joy, tears, tragedy and laughter all find a place within political, social and religious satires.

Cultural Announcements


THIS WEEK’S CULTURAL ANNOUNCEMENTS



Top Cultural Story
Nicanor Parra: Chile's antipoet
Theater Review
Courtesy of Centro Cultural Matucana 100
Provincia Kapital: an all-singing, all-dacing critique of capitalism
Film Review
Emir Kusturica's Underground: love, death and Balkan rhythm