One Mother Courage and her children in the Purgatory will be played on the street, outdoors. From the beginning imagined as a camp, an enclosure surrounded by a barbed wire, image of the present world. This exacerbated decoration, this no man’s land for waiting souls will be made with sand and air, fire and water.

The theatre of the war, it is a non-space, it is the space which follows a conflict, a duality. It is a space made for the man.

It is a place, which cannot hide anything, transparent, where all the gestures are registered. It is like a photographic diaphragm, a scanner, followed by nothing, by sand, by smoke. One finds everything, one finds nothing.

Lost armchairs in a gas inhalation, porticoes like telegraph poles, barbed wires, grilles, which carry the biggest gardens of the world and suddenly nothing, the man lost in the scene space.
A camp of death and life.

In the space created by Mauricio Celedon and Eduardo. Jiménez, the universe of the Purgatory is spread over 300 M².

Integrated in the scene and being part of this scenography, the human drive carts which change, roll, incline, stop and convert into shelters, canteens, kiosks, travelling shops, prisons, gallows, canons, beds of love and death.

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