Santiago a Mil is the main project of Fundación Teatro a Mil (FITAM), an institution whose purpose is to promote the development and dissemination of culture and the contemporary arts.
Through and beyond the festival, FITAM sets out to provide audiences with excellent shows, to foster playwriting by staging co-productions and to contribute to the internationalisation of Chilean theatre by bringing programmers from the world’s leading venues as guests of the festival and creating networks for mutual exchanges in the performing arts.
For its 20th year, the Festival wished to count on the presence of the Antigua i Barbuda company founded in 2002 by Jordi Ferré; its participation is supported by AC/E through its mobility programme. The company is showing Arquitectura de feria (Fairground Architecture), an installation featuring merry-go-rounds, wheels of fortune and deckchairs that encourage viewers to relate to each other and with the machines to make them work. Its argument transports spectators to a world of fantasy in which the machines speak of feelings and emotions. These machines are built from objects with memory, such as the crying machine and the machine that measures recollections.
Through and beyond the festival, FITAM sets out to provide audiences with excellent shows, to foster playwriting by staging co-productions and to contribute to the internationalisation of Chilean theatre by bringing programmers from the world’s leading venues as guests of the festival and creating networks for mutual exchanges in the performing arts.
For its 20th year, the Festival wished to count on the presence of the Antigua i Barbuda company founded in 2002 by Jordi Ferré; its participation is supported by AC/E through its mobility programme. The company is showing Arquitectura de feria (Fairground Architecture), an installation featuring merry-go-rounds, wheels of fortune and deckchairs that encourage viewers to relate to each other and with the machines to make them work. Its argument transports spectators to a world of fantasy in which the machines speak of feelings and emotions. These machines are built from objects with memory, such as the crying machine and the machine that measures recollections.