The Work stages the quest of a group of workshop participants in search of a radical form of experimentation. Matías, Marian and Dina enforce a series of rules, agreements, commandments and strict protocols. This is an investigation that no one yet understands, but to which everyone surrenders: practical tasks, self-discipline and accidents; attachment and detachment, penances and licenses.

Come to the front. Figure yourself out. Combat self-celebration and complicity with the audience. Do what is not convenient. Seek rigor. Every participant gets what they need: a diet of words to combat the elderly lady’s verbosity; a diet of wisecracks to keep the young man with easy humour in check; a compulsion to be more physical for the one who is overly cerebral.

Undergo reckless tests without measuring the consequences, experiments that no one knows how or where they will end. Bait that is bittersweet; cages that are liberating. Puns. Psychological terror. A blind person who sees. Someone who jumps into the void. The director plays the dog and ends up locked up.

In a merging of philosophies, methods and practices, each player seems at once to be both student and teacher. Criteria for self-evaluation and the evaluation of others are put into practice. The feedback is relentless. Everyone resists, and yields, to everyone else. Everything is under observation and is part of a common task. 

Becoming detectives of themselves, everyone works against their tendencies, challenging themselves to get out of their comfort zone. Under a constant state of discipline and observation, the group engages in work of self-transformation. In this laboratory, located at the nexus between theory and practice, the results are as unpredictable as they are brutal.

Artistic sheet

Cast / Santiago Gobernori, Beatriz Rajland and Federico León
Lighting Design / Alejandro Le Roux
Costume Design / Paola Delgado
Set Design / Ariel Vaccaro
Choreographic advice / Luciana Acuña
Casting / María Laura Berch
Music Design / Diego Vainer
Direction assistant / Carla Grella
General production / Melisa Santoro
Distribution / Carlota Guivernau y T4
Dramaturgy and Direction / Federico León