John Malkovich to perform one-night show in Buenos Aires

Actor and director John Malkovich will arrive in Argentina in March to present El Infame Ramírez Hoffman in a one-night show in Buenos Aires.  Tickets for the staging, set for March 27 at the Teatro Ópera ON, will be available online for the general public on Thursday, February 17, with prices starting at AR$45,000.  A theatrical production that blends literature, live music and performance, the 90-minute show is inspired by the work of Chilean author Roberto Bolaño and centers on a fictional aviator-poet who writes verses in the sky while serving the machinery of repression during Chile’s dictatorship. Through dark parody, the work interrogates the idea that artistic creation might excuse moral atrocities, echoing broader debates tied to Latin America’s political memory. Malkovich, whose film career spans more than 70 titles including Dangerous Liaisons and Being John Malkovich, will be accompanied by a trio led by world-renowned pianist Anastasya Terenkova alongside violinist Andrej Bielow and bandoneon player Fabrizio Colombo. Their live score incorporates works by composers such as Astor Piazzolla, Antonio Vivaldi, Erik Satie, and Alberto Iglesias. An Academy Award nominee widely regarded as a major figure in contemporary screen and stage acting, Malkovich has worked with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood, while also directing opera and theater productions worldwide. His stage work has earned honors including France’s Molière Award and London’s Evening Standard Award for best director. In 2016, Malkovich performed in Argentina “An Evening with John Malkovich,, a one-man show in which he read Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato’s prologue to the 1984 report by the National Commission for the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP), known as Nunca Más (Never Again.) At the time, Malkovich revealed to local media his botched plans to adapt Sabato’s novel On Heroes and Tombs.  Bolaño, who died in 2003, is widely considered one of the most influential Spanish-language writers of his generation. His fiction frequently draws on the trauma of Chile’s 1973 coup, repression and exile, reflecting personal experiences he later described as marked by fear and the arbitrariness of military power and state terrorism.