Three pioneers who settled in Chilean Patagonia, María Verdugo, a woman who has lived on the banks of the Baker River since 1920, María Loyola, a fisherwoman from Puerto Tortel, and María Sophie, a Belgian immigrant farmer settled in Chile Chico, share the extreme life experiences they have lived in this Jurassic part of the world.

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Direction, production, dramaturgy, acting, mask confection Isabel Burr Raty 

 

Acting Direction 

Gonzalo Losada & Ignacia Bouchon 

 

Camera 

Antonio Quercia, Daniela Morales

& Isabel Burr Raty 

 

Editing 

Camila Montero & Luis Portcarrero 

 

Integral Design Sergio Torretta 

 

Scenography Fernando Meneses 

 

Costume Design Marjory Araya

 

Graphic Design Francisca Armas  

Technicians 

 

José Joaquín Ovalle & Enrique Llano 

 

Creative Advisors 

Pía Beckmann & Fernando Meneses

 

Supported by 

Council of Arts & Culture XI Region Chile

& Wallonie Bruxelles in Chile, Spanish Cultural Center, UCC Channel Bicentenario, ACCA of CONAMA, Eduardo Cifuentes’s Photography, Municipalities of: Chile Chico, Cochrane, Caleta Tortel, Villa O’Higgins, Puerto Ibáñez and Puerto Tranquilo, SERNAM XI Aysén Region, Balmaceda Arte Joven, Pan Semilla, Vinos Bouchon

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Theatrical document – The Concept

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Las Tres Marías is a combination of Comedia Humana, which is the modern version of Commedia dell’Arte, with documentary video. Both the masks and the film, perform as a unity by telling stories about the role that women had in the creation of the local culture, that back then had not been documented in books nor in a theatrical form. This theatrical document was designed to travel and be performed in unofficial performing spaces.

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Play Tour

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In 2006 this mask play toured all along the villages of the most southern part of the Austral Highway, from Coyhaique to Villa O'higgins. Because at that time there were no theaters around, Las Tres Marias performed in public spaces and schools, communal & sports centers, bringing theater to people that live in extremely isolated geographies, some which had never seen theater before.

 

 

CHRONOLOGY IN CHILE

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2009

October: Season at Museo Benjamín Vicuña Mackena, Santiago

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2008

June: Season at Biblioteca de Santiago

September: Season at Biblioteca de Santiago

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2007

January: Season at Festival de Teatro Festival Off, Galpón 7, Santiago

January:  Season at Centro Cultural “El Sofá”, Santiago

January: La Legua, Santiago

September: Centro Cultural “Ainil”, Santiago

 

2006

March: Austral Highway Chilean Patagonia tour, villages: Chile Chico, Puerto Bertrand, Cochrane, Caleta Tortel, Villa O’higgins & Puerto Tranquilo

June: Centro Cultural de España, Santiago

July: Season in Teatro Balmaceda 1215, Quinta Normal, Santiago

September: Season at Teatro Lastarria 90, Santiago

November: Season at Teatro Galpón 7, Santiago​​​