Marcelo Chaparro

Marcelo Chaparro, born in Argentina in 1968. Actor, screenwriter, dramaturge. Lives in Vienna since 2010. From 1990 to 1995 he completed acting training and dramaturgy courses in Buenos Aires. From 1996 to 2010 he worked as an actor in Argentine and international television, film and theater productions, and as a writer and director in independent theater projects in Buenos Aires. In 2004 he made his short film "Muñeco", which participated in film festivals in Argentina, Peru, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland. Since 2010 he participated as co-screenwriter in Argentine and European film projects. In 2013 he founded "Puro teatro - Viena" a project for intercultural acting training and theater in Spanish based in Vienna. See Facebook page "Puro teatro Viena". 2016 Presented in San Sebastian international Film Festival: "The Winter", (Dir. Emiliano Torres) as author film. Awards of Jury and Best Photography. 

The play "The Box. Story of a Machine" is a futuristic fantasy about the world of work and the condition of unemployment. The so-called work training courses for the unemployed initially served as a reference for the writing process. But in the course of creation, the story then found its own structure and the language deliberately keeps a distance from models and themes of reality. In the play, work is presented as a fiction machine. The participants of the course behave like actors. It is about simulation, games and training models. Exercises to become different: That is what the concept of the good citizen means. The hypothesis of the piece is that one cannot represent work. You cannot put the search for work on the stage. The experience of the work simulation is stronger than the work itself.