Argentine masterpiece about theatre, film and reality.Theaterkrant
With La Obra (‘The Play’) the Argentinian theatre and film-maker Mariano Pensotti creates a performance about the remarkable story of the Polish Jew Simon Frank.
After surviving the horror of the Nazi concentration camps, Frank moves to a village in Argentina in the 1960s. Under the curious gaze of the inhabitants, he transforms a field into a spectacular stage set: a cardboard copy of the Warsaw of his youth. Gradually, the entire village becomes part of the play in which Frank brings his past to life. Until one day the masks slip. Pensotti creates an ingenious theatre performance that unfolds brilliantly. An unmissable date for the thoroughbred theatre afficionado; an ode to the power of multi-layered narrative constructions on stage.