Gloria Laso receives a distinction for her career at the Temporales Teatrales

A career that has established her as a renowned actress on television, the big screen and the stage is the one that Gloria Laso has built for a little over five decades, who came to Puerto Montt and the Temporales Teatrales festival exclusively to receive the recognition.

“I would never have thought of receiving this recognition. It is a tremendous honor for me. The truth is that it made me want to do theater again right away,” said the excited actress and director, who added “coming to the south is like entering the Chile that was and the Chile that one would like it to be. I had not been to the festival for many years, and I feel that the festival has grown, it has become more solidified, for people it is like a ritual to attend and the call is very nice,” she said.

Asked about the significance of the Temporales Teatrales on the national scene, Laso said: “The Temporales Teatrales are in the collective unconscious. It is a part of the history of Puerto Montt. You have created culture, you have made people immerse themselves in it and that means that you have dedicated yourselves to feeding the soul of the city,” she said.

The actress also stressed the public’s attitude.

“The level of people’s interest, participation, response and awareness – because I happened to see a work of memory and I saw how people resonated with it – is something that is not seen in Santiago. There, the public does not have that level of reflection, people are much less emotionally, intellectually and politically committed.”

This is a distinction that has been strengthened year after year at the festival, and which responds to the need to recognize the work and the extensive artistic career that actors and actresses have carried out in the national theater.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the thirty-fifth version of the longest-running and most extensive festival in the country is entering its final stretch. Today will be the turn of “Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by the National Chilean Theatre, which under the direction of Cristian Keim will stage Daniel Alcaíno, Trinidad González, Nicole Vial and Felipe Zeped. A performance that sold out its tickets 24 hours after the box office opened at the Diego Rivera Theatre on July 8, and which will portray the apparent tranquility of a world of intellectuals contrasted with the exacerbated human passions.