La Serena is a drama that features Augusto, a 50-year-old actor who suffers an accident when lighting scaffolding collapses on stage. After some days in the hospital, he returns to his apartment and receives an unexpected visit from Ramiro, a former lover who abruptly abandoned him fifteen years before. After recalling past conflicts, they are interrupted by Diego, Augusto’s young student who’s infatuated with his master’s talent. These happenings also prompt Augusto to revisit a tragic event of his childhood: the death of his father while vacationing in La Serena, Chile. Is this situation part of reality or part of a nightmare where past mistakes and regrets return to hunt and punish? This Argentine version of Jean Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos examines masculinities and delves into ideas of the afterlife in cyclical explorations of a man continuously chased by his own nature.



This reading will be performed in Spanish.