Simon Frank is a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi camps. In 1962, years after his arrival in the small Argentine city of Coronel Sivori, he began to create settings that were faithful reproductions of places from his life in Poland.
The copy of his house serves as the stage for an autobiographical comedy that, with the passage of time, comes to involve the entire community, initially only as enthusiastic spectators, but gradually also as actors and technicians. In 2005, Simon Frank was arrested; the police had discovered that the true nature of his life was very different from what he had presented. In 2019, the theatrical director Walid Mansour decided to stage the entire story, together with five inhabitants from Coronel Sivori, creating fiction from fiction.
This is La Obra by Mariano Pensotti, an articulated reflection on the mechanisms of representation, which invites the spectator to disentangle truth and falsehood in the great theatre of the world.