Augusto Casafranca

Acting

Augusto Casafranca

Augusto Casafranca is an actor with a distinguished career spanning more than five decades. In addition to his acting work, he is a teacher and performing arts researcher with extensive experience in artistic training and creation. His career began in 1973 with his participation in the René Ramírez Cultural Group in Cusco. In 1975, he joined the emblematic cultural group Yuyachkani, where he has participated in numerous works, both original and collaborative, including: Allpa Rayku (For the Land) (1978), The Traveling Musicians (1983), Encounter of Foxes (1985), Goodbye Ayacucho (solo performance, 1990), Santiago (2000), Made in Peru (2001), Untitled, mixed media (2004), Letters from Chimbote (2015), and Graduation Speech (2017). Alongside Yuyachkani, he has participated in numerous seasons, tours, gatherings, festivals, and workshops both nationally and internationally. Recently, he participated in important productions such as: *Quiero creer que estoy regreso* (2021), *El teatro es un sueño* (2022), and *Argonautas* (2024) with Alberto Isola. In his pedagogical role, he has designed and implemented various workshops focused on physical expression, dance, stilt walking, and mask making and use, incorporating his perspectives on the Andean worldview. He is also a Quechua translator and a Tibetan Tai Chi instructor, activities that complement his holistic approach to artistic training.

Acting credits

Prelude poster
NR

At the end of the working day, Ruben, a discouraged bookstore clerk, meets a strange client who refuses to leave the store, leading him to experience new emotions

Prelude

2020

empathetic poster
6.0

When a hardworking girl in a chicken costume meets a troubled schoolboy, the walls she has built around herself will be put to the test.

empathetic

2022

Paucartambo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paucartambo

2024

Extirpator of Idolatries poster
10.0

The police detective Waldo, of immersed and circumspect disposition and temper, investigates several crimes associated with indigenous rituals that occur in some regions of the Peruvian Andes. There we find a boy and a girl who are about to enter puberty and begin to interact with certain mythical beings, a supernatural belief very common in many Andean villages. A sinister character, pretending to be on a mission of faith, but imbued with religious dogmatism and intolerance, interrupts this peaceful scene as he casts an ominous shadow over these ancient Peruvian beliefs. Although Waldo's boss considers him inferior and distrusts his methods (a form of discrimination), the policeman continues his efforts to capture the "Extirpator of Idolatries.¨ At the same time, Waldo will resolve his own inner conflict which has troubled him all his life.

Extirpator of Idolatries

2016

Yawarpampa: campo de sangre poster
NR

In 1424, the Chancas tried to conquer a small kingdom: the Incas. In this war, the destiny of the Andean world was decided with the rise of Pachacutec as the leader in Cusco, and the genesis of the Incan Empire and its expansion under his rule. This short narrates the decisive battle between the two factions, along with mythological elements.

Yawarpampa: campo de sangre

2009

Persistence of the memory poster
NR

In 1971, some young Peruvian playwrights founded the group Yuyachkani, a Quechua word which means: "I am thinking, I am remembering. 25 years later, in 1996, the group celebrates its anniversary, performing a retrospective of its most important works, which allows them to think and remember about the scene they have traveled

Persistence of the memory

1998