A Redacted Communist Manifesto for Children

An audio piece! A trailer! A re-imagining of a theatrical production that didn’t happen, or is maybe cursed (some shows are, right?), or perhaps wasn’t meant to be… on a stage!

An old-school cinematic trailer narrator takes our ears towards a sound-piece-blood-sample that tells the story of four children in the Latin American countryside in the 1950s: three bourgeois and one proletariat, as they discover the teachings of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’ Communist Manifesto.

The children play out games based on the book (which they stole from a one-armed farmer), which begins to possess their inner and outer existence. They also play their parents and travel to a possible future where armed struggle paints a nation the warmest colors: red, red, red.

Post-dramatic elements are part of the piece because who doesn’t love to know what performers think about characters that perform within a performance, in a theatrical experience about ideological resistance to communism and change.

October 21, 2021 at 7:00 PM

About the artist

Bruce Gibbons Fell is super delighted to be back at CAMINOS this year! He is a queer award-winning playwright from Chile and almost almost almost a Canadian citizen! His work as a playwright-translator has been presented in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Cuba, the US, and the UK. His theatre company, SO MUCH DRAMA (previously Cocodrilo Triste), showcases his collaborations with the artistically gorgeous Ben McCarthy: working on reinterpretations of different decades from the 20th century, pop culture, revolutionary values, or lack thereof. He currently resides in Viña del Mar, a beach city near avocado country.  Bruce is currently directing Residencia Dínamo, Chile’s first and only international playwriting residency. He’s almost a lawyer too, spends a bit too much time on Instagram, loves the colour gold, has been obsessed with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” for over twenty years,  and his cat’s name is Cordelio because he was translating a bizarre feminist incestuous adaptation of King Lear the day he showed up in his backyard!