Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol — Centroamérica
+ talk
The ticket sales start on 08.04.2025 at 13:00.
For years, Mexican theatre collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol has explored the frontier between reality and invention. As they began new work on the Central American region, they met A., a Nicaraguan woman who fled the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. During their conversations, A. made an extraordinary request. Since she could not cross the border, she wanted the artists to re-enter Nicaragua using a fictional identity and carry out tasks in her name.
What began as an artistic delegation evolved into political action, using fiction as a tool outside the theatre, now restaged through interviews and reconstructed scenes. While Mexico is often compelled to look North, Lagartijas turns the gaze South, to neighbouring countries shaped by military intervention, the geopolitics of the Panama Canal, exploited mechanisms of migration, and the speculative Bitcoin ventures of today.
In Centroamérica, theatre takes action for a woman who cannot return, revealing both its limits and its possibilities. Unable to repair history, perhaps theatre can enter it, blurring the boundary between fact, fiction, and the frontiers of a united continent, beyond divided nations and responsibilities.
+ aftertalk on 14.05 moderated by Silvia Bottiroli (EN)
Please confirm your attendance with a wheelchair during online reservation or through box office, Accessible for wheelchair users with assistance | Spanish → NL, FR, EN | ⧖ 1h30 | €18 / €15
Presentation: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, BeursschouwburgPerformance and coordination: Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez | Space and light design: Sergio López Vigueras | Design and production of curtains: Pedro Pizarro | Director assistant: Macaria Reyes | “María”: Ella fuerte | General assistants: Janet Vázquez, Manu Guerrero | Testimonies: Dora María Téllez, Gabriela Selser, Rafael Camacho and Nicaraguan men and women in exile who have told their stories but cannot be named for security reasons | Poster image: Cecilia Porras Saénz | Stock images: Filmoteca de la UNAM | Images of Nicaragua 2018: Rafael Camacho, Chilly SmitProduction: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol | Coproduction: Centro Cultural España en México, Teatro Casa de la Paz, UAM, Théâtre Joliette, Théâtre de Lenche, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
image: Centroamérica © Ulises Ávila
Kunstenfestivaldesarts is an international performing arts festival dedicated to contemporary theatre, dance, performance and visual arts. Every year, it takes place in Brussels during three weeks in May.
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