"People are afraid to transgress an order"

An evening that could have been enjoyable, accompanied by anecdotes, wine glbades and marijuana whistles. As the night progresses, it becomes more and more tense. The characters gathered in a department near the Costanera center are Valentina, Felipe and Nadia.

In the long night, a history of violence predominates, a flight with shootings and gunfire in southern Chile. This is the story that becomes central in the lives of Weichafe's protagonists, Marcelo Leonart (48).

This is the sixth novel by the national writer and playwright who has made political contingency and social conflict only narrative present in his theater and narrative.
This time, three police cases, two of them related to the Mapuche conflict, cross at Weichafe: the abuses committed by Martin Larraín, son of the former president of RN Carlos Larraín, caused the death of his father. Hernán Cbades, in 2013; death, as part of an action of "unnecessary violence" on the part of Carabineros against Matías Catrileo, Mapuche student, in 2008, and the arson that resulted in the death of the Luchsinger-Mackay couple, in January 2013.

Excerpt from the novel The idea of ​​making a theatrical montage was born. Thus was born Mapuche Night, created with the performances of Pablo Schwarz, Nona Fernández (Leonart's couple), Daniel Alcaíno and Roxana Naranjo, created at the GAM in 2017, a scenario that will return on January 6, 7 and 8. as part of the Santiago a Mil festival.

"The work is less realistic, more each, but more brutal," says Leonart, who keeps the cans of gas on stage, and you can still hear the wedding phone records at any time. Luchsinger-Mackay, calling Carabineros, while his home in the municipality of Vilcún is on fire.

Sometimes questioned by his frontal and provocative attitude, the author claims that the "grace of provoking, it is that they do not seem provocative to me, the situations present in my work", and "People, in general, are very afraid to give their opinion, unless it is added to an idea that is generated and becomes acceptable." People are afraid to transgress an order. recalls a phrase of the Italian writer Pier Paolo Pasolini: "I believe that scandalizing is a right, being scandalized is a pleasure, and one who rejects the pleasure of being scandalized is a moralist."
Weichafe is divided into four parts: The Department / Fire; Street / crime; Cause / The real thing and The piece / The south. It's a journey that goes from intimacy to social causes, where fiction and reality converge.

"And the dead in the middle of the forest, and the dead in the midst of the fire, and the dead embedded in bars on the side of roads and highways," reads Weichafe.

"I am an absolute activist of fiction and in all my novels, fiction is extremely important, but it is becoming more and more rooted in a real situation," he says.