Othello: Tregedia Theatre 2025

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Following the resounding success of Blood Wedding, La Fábrica de Microobios and Gente Perdida proudly return with a bold, visceral reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare's most explosive tragedies: Othello. This striking new production, directed by Diana Paola Alvarado with assistant direction by Patricio Ibarra, invites audiences to experience Othello as they've never seen it before - through an all-female cast and a dynamic, movement-based performance style that redefines classical storytelling.

A Reclamation of Space for Women in Theatre

In this innovative staging, female-presenting actors take centre stage to embody the power, vulnerability, and complexity of Shakespeare's characters - roles that have historically excluded them. Othello becomes not only a tale of jealousy and betrayal but a bold artistic act of reclamation. This production reimagines the classical canon through a feminist lens, offering a space where women's voices and bodies are given full agency to command the narrative.

Physical Storytelling Meets Psychological Depth

Under Alvarado's visionary direction, Othello is told with the body as the primary language. Movement takes precedence over spoken word, fusing choreography with emotion to evoke the raw inner lives of the characters. The result is a deeply felt, physically immersive experience that speaks beyond language-one that pulls the audience into a poetic and intensely charged atmosphere.

The production builds on the shared mission of La Fábrica de Microobios and Gente Perdida: to challenge theatrical conventions, dismantle hierarchies in casting, and offer audiences powerful, contemporary engagements with timeless works.

Why Othello Now?

In a world still reckoning with questions of identity, race, gender, power, and manipulation, Othello remains painfully relevant. This production holds up a mirror to those themes, refracted through a bold aesthetic that strips the story back to its emotional core. It invites reflection not only on the play's historical context but on our own assumptions about who gets to tell which stories-and how.

• Director: Diana Paola Alvarado

• Assisting Director: Patricio Ibarra

• Producers: Diana Paola Alvarado/ Patricio Ibarra

• Assisting Producer: Babette Shaw

• Dramaturgy: Erica J Brennan

• Movement and Intimacy Direction: Diana Paola Alvarado

• Fight Choreography: Diego Retamales

• Music Arrangements: Patricio Ibarra

• Music Direction: Patricio Ibarra/ Babette Shaw

• Lighting Design: Theo Carroll

• Lighting operator: Eliza Dodd

• Costume design: Leandro Sanchez

• Stage/Props: Leandro Sanchez/ Jason Lowe

• Photography: Felipe Godoy

• Graphic Design: Constanza Olmos Acuña/ Sole Niemann

• Video: Theo Carroll

• Photography: Felipe Godoy/Theo Carroll

• Cast: Natasha Cheng, Lisa Hanssens, Chloe Schwank, Cath Young, Sedem Banini, Cris Bocchi, Lucinda Jurd, Rachel Bendeich

Approx run time 100 mins, no interval

Content warning: use of racial slurs, misogyny, domestic violence and suicidal