Yale Rep's No Boundaries to Continue with ESCUELA

Yale Repertory Theatre's 2015-16 No Boundaries performance series continues with ESCUELA, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón, February 24-26 at 8PM at the Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street).

Chile, 1987. A group of young left-wing activists gather in a drab living room to receive paramilitary instruction aimed at overthrowing the military dictatorship. Wearing ski masks to conceal their identity from each other, they teach their respective skills: using a gun, political theory, clandestine organizational methods. With offbeat humor and penetrating insight, Escuela illuminates the struggle and yearning of a lost generation prepared to use any means necessary to achieve justice and freedom.

Tickets for ESCUELA are $50-70 and are available online at yalerep.org, by phone (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street). Student tickets are $25.

Escuela is a production of Fundación Teatro a Mil.

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles. Running time: 100 minutes, no intermission.

Guillermo Calderón (Director, Playwright) was born in Chile during Salvador Allende's democratically elected left-wing Popular Unity alliance, and came of age under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. His plays include Neva, Diciembre, Clase, Villa, Discurso, Quake, School, and Kiss. Calderón's productions have toured extensively through South America and Europe. Festival stops include Buenos Aires International Theatre Festival, Chekhov Festival (Russia), Edinburgh International Festival, Festival d'Automne (France), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Seoul Performing Arts Festival (Korea), TEATERFORMEN Festival (Germany), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), World Theatre Festival (Belgium), The Public Theater´s Under the Radar Festival, and RADAR L.A. The English language version of Neva had its US Premiere at The Public Theater in 2013; a subsequent production toured to South Coast Rep, Center Theatre Group, and La Jolla Playhouse. He has been commissioned by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Germany), the Royal Court Theater (England), and The Public Theater. His co-written screenplay Violeta Went to Heaven won the World Cinema Jury Prize for Drama at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He also co-wrote The Club, winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2015. Villa and Speech were published in Theater Magazine (Yale and Duke). He is currently working on a commission from The Public Theater.

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