On stage, a gallery of characters teeters on the edge of political commitment, betrayal, guilt, and silence. Actors Pep Cruz, Marta Marco, Erol Ileri, and Gemma Martínez find themselves entangled in a thriller exploring the gray areas of the human condition as they attempt to put words to the abysses of a family and, by extension, of society as a whole.
Verónica Estay Stange is Professor of Semiotics of Memory at the University of Paris. Her parents were brutally persecuted during Pinochet’s dictatorship. At the same time, her uncle, Miguel Estay, alias El Fanta, became a torturer and is considered the greatest traitor in Chilean history. The story follows Verónica’s determination to give words to silences, uncover every possible version of the events, and try to understand the pain that tore her family apart.
An exercise that conveys the unspeakable through different stage languages. Following the style of Cultura i Conflicte (There’s Still Someone in the Woods, Catalonia National Theater 2021; You shall Die, Catalonia National Theater 2022), this is a fictional work grounded in documentary research carried out over more than two years through interviews with the real protagonists of the story, witnesses, video fragments and archival material.
