The year is 1973. In Chile, a group of young poets meet to write, argue, critique and flirt.
Days later, the government collapses and the president is shot. Amidst the brutality, one poet rises to fame as a skywriting daredevil—and, possibly, as a killer. An eerily relevant drama unfolds in Brooklyn-based theater company Caborca’s adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel Distant Star, a harrowing tale of fascism and its aftermath.
The work weaves the author’s memories of life (and death) under Pinochet’s American-backed dictatorship into a perverse, seductive noir of urgent political necessity.
Distant Star is staged throughout the bunker-like environment of the Underground Theater at Abrons Arts Center, the actors and audience occupying every inch of physical space.
