CUERVO by Théâtre Aleph & La Comète

FUNDarte and Miami-Dade County Auditorium are proud to present CUERVO, a documentary theater performance by Théâtre Aleph & La Comète (France), at The Koubek Center on January 29th and 30th, 2027 at 8:00 p.m. In April 2021, Óscar “Cuervo” Castro, Chilean playwright and theatre director and founder in 1968 of the theatre company Teatro Aleph in Santiago de Chile, passed away in France. Three years later, in December 2024, his sons Cosme and Oscar crossed half the world and the Andes Cordillera, camera in hand, carrying with them, like an unfulfilled promise, a text their father left them: CUERVO, from his unpublished theatrical autobiography. In 1974, Oscar (known as “El Cuervo”) and his sister Marietta were arrested and tortured by agents of the Chilean military dictatorship. Despite the extreme violence, and resisting despair, Oscar turned his experience in Chile’s concentration camps into a work of art: from Tres Álamos to Puchuncaví-Melinka, via Ritoque in the Region of Valparaíso, he staged a new play each week in the camps’ dining halls, transforming the lives of hundreds of prisoners. Guided by their father’s narrative, Cosme and Oscar Jr. set out in search of former fellow…