LA VIDA BREVE (The Brief Life) 

A project developed by company ESTUDIO|ELCUARTO| Written by Esteban Bieda and Nahuel Cano 

Synopsis: Cold is artificial for us: we have no feathers, no fur, no nothing. We live in cold places out of utter foolishness. Sometimes I wonder if love is not one of those places for which we wear moth-eaten sweaters. A mid-winter party: the movement of stars, an elm forest, Sonic Youth and duck hunting. By the evening’s end, Kostia Levine kills himself and Ana discovers that betrayal is the only possible form of love. Like time in novels, a lifetime is nothing but fiction, whether it lasts one day or fifty years. LA VIDA BREVE is a re-writing, a mutant and chaotic contemporary comment on Lev Tolstoy’s and Anton Chekhov’s narrative universe and topics; it’s a critical reflection about fiction and its limitations to give proper account of the private drama of love and death. In the meantime, it expresses an urgent feeling: everything crumbles and fictions are what barely keeps us standing. 

Performers: María Abadi, Anabella Bacigalupo, Florencia Bergallo, Diego Echegoyen, Leonardo Murúa, Javier Pedersoli, Mariano Sayavedra. 

Directed by: Nahuel Cano