About the show

Who’s the enemy? How do they become the enemy? How do we connect with ‘others’? These are some of the challenging questions that a group of Chilean doctors ask themselves, as they prepare a talk for an international conference about prejudice in medicine. It’s a relevant topic that has become increasingly more complex due to the recent arrival of the Amenites, extraterrestrials who have come to settle on Earth. Tú amarás, premiered in 2018 and has achieved international recognition in various festivals, depicts a characteristic description of the violence, hatred and love exerted in the ‘others’ (the marginalized, the minorities, the strangers), within a democratic context. And they do it with humour and irony.

About the Company

Bonobo is a theatre group consisting of artists trained at the Fernando González Mardones Academy of Acting and the Theatre School of the University of Chile. Coming together in 2012 for the creation and production of Amansadura, they began a search to understand why and how violence towards the “other” is legitimised within a democratic context. In 2015, they presented their second work, Donde viven los bárbaros , a show that sought to continue and further explore the question of how the “other” is created, the barbarian, the foreigner. For this work, Pablo Manzi received the Dramaturgia 2016 award, the Literario award in the category of Dramaturgy from the CNCA and the Dramaturgia 2015 award. In 2019, the company presented Tú amarás. Exploring different stories and languages, the group seeks to delve into the hostility, cruelty and the daily exclusion implicit in modern-day democratic in Chile.