“Abriendo mundos o… conversaciones encontradas, entre la neblina perfecta y un rayo de Luna”
(“Opening worlds or conversations found between the perfect mist and a moonbeam”)

A Clown and the World.
The World: absurd, eccentric, tragic and simple.
And a Clown: simple, eccentric, tragic, absurd…
An invisible dialogue between the reflection and what’s behind the mirror.
Doors that open: like eyes, like souls, like worlds…

This is the story of a Clown that begins one ordinary day, inside the city-labyrinth. After a night like any other, his dreams: they play to find, hidden behind the perfect mist of the walls, a way out.

How to live in a routine and mechanical world, composed of hours, days and certainties that run who knows where: one after the other, one after the other, one after the other…?

“Opening worlds or… found conversations, between the perfect haze and a moonbeam.”

This is a theatrical Clown performance with acting, playwright and direction by Victor Stivelman, that comes from years of study and passionate research of the clowning universe and aims through a deep poetics, to question us about our daily confinements and our freedom. It has the dramaturgical advice of Arístides Vargas and the original music of Lucas Achirico.

Running time: 60 minutes. 

The play is suitable for all audience.

Technical Information

This play tells the story of a couple of educators who try to generate new teaching options, following the premise that they deeply believe in the possibility of education, but they do not want to teach in the same way they have been taught. At the same time, the story tells how they establish a deep relationship between them in emotional terms.

In terms their teaching approaches, they create unconventional methods which are not accepted within their own institution, although according to them they have a positive impact on their students.

Through a profound questioning of the educational processes and education itself, which is socially and culturally transmitted: where the young person is instructed by imposing an endless number of rules, morals, guilt, etc. We question ourselves: what is truly ours? What we “inherited” without a choice? Including ways of being, thinking, feeling of each other.

Over the years, they realize that even though new ways of teaching can be explored, there are things in life that cannot be taught but must be lived. They draw these conclusions from their own emotional experiences.

Directed by: Arístides Vargas. Playwright and performance: Alegría Cáceres Benavides and Víctor Stivelman. The staging has the support of several distinguished artists. The play is geared towards a young and adult audience.

“Pasajeros” was conceived with the intention of being a stage work that can cross borders: geographical, political, social, economic, cultural, a performance that can be received by any spectator, in any context. Therefore, there’s an investigation and a hard work about what is “Universal”: the simplicity. Which, paradoxically, has nothing to do with something easy, but with a kind of synthesis, of essence. Where less is more.

Premiered in April 2018, this is a non-verbal, poetic, comic, absurd, precise, profound performance.

The play immerses us in the universe of three human beings in transit, who arrive at an unknown “station” and await their connection to the next destination. Their departure is imminent, but little by little the wait begins to extend more than it should. Their discomfort increases and they inhabit the wait until they are shipwrecked in it. Unsatisfied with their reality, they have left behind their ordinary life, full of daily confinements, to venture on this journey, where they have met and accompanied each other. Could it be a way of awakening?

In a simple and unpretentious way, life offers us a continuous game of changes. Different seasons, at different times, pass before our eyes. They are “Passengers” of their own life, made up of an endless succession of arrivals and departures; of beginnings, endings and farewells. Each step along the way implies decisions. Which voice should we follow? The one of our heart or the one of our head? – “It is not possible that in the end the miracle does not burst” – said the poet. A miracle is that one that cannot be explained, a profound mystery: like life, love, or the next season.

This staging, 65 minutes long, is aimed at young people and adults, suitable for children.