Program Fira B! 2023
La posibilidad de la ternura
Teatro La Re-sentida
In a world in which wars led by men continue to exist, in which racial hate crimes, LGBTQIA+PHOBIA and gender violence are perpetrated mostly by men, in which many of them continue to exercise the power to dominate and make others suffer, is where the practice of tenderness acquires revolutionary power by allowing other masculinities to live away from this barbarity and brutality.
In La posibilidad de la ternura, a group of 7 young Chileans between the ages of 13 and 17 decide to resist the cultural mandate that imposes them to be aggressive and authoritarian through the practice of tenderness, understanding it as the needed energy to transform their virile toughness into affection.
They embark on their own masculinity construction, facing the fear of being insulted, humiliated and marginalised, opening up for the first time to the possibility of holding each other down and showing affection freely and asking themselves endless questions: How do we change ourselves if we don't have a male model as a reference to adopt? What is it that stops us from showing affection, from asking for affection? What do we fear? How much love is missing in men's lives in our culture? How do we resist a cultural mandate that imposes aggressiveness on us? How do we defend tenderness? How do we make it a political practice?
Premiere in Spain.
Direction and Dramaturgy: Marco Layera and Carolina de la Maza
Cast: José Miguel Araya Moreno, Leftrarü Valdivia Castro, Camilo Bugueño Espejo, Efraín Chaparro Pérez, Matías Mendez González, Dimitri Bueno Ferrer and Marcos Cruz Andulce.
Playwright: Aljoscha Begrich
Theoretical Collaboration: Ernesto Orellana
Assistant Director: Katherine Maureira
General Production: Victoria Iglesias Álvarez de Araya
Audiovisual Registration: Humberto Espinoza
Lighting Design: Karl Sateler
Set Design: Compañía La Re-Sentida
Costume Design: Daniel Bagnara
Sound Design: Andrés Quezada
Technical Manager: Karl Sateler
Psychologist: Rodrigo Mardones
Production: Centro Gabriela Mistral, GAM and Ruhtriennale
Co-Production: Münchner Kammerspiele
Distribution and Delegated Production: Carlota Guivernau
Teatro La Re-sentida
Marco Layera: Theatre director, teacher and playwright, born in 1977 in Santiago, Chile, he studied Law at the University of Chile where he specialised in Criminology. His theatre training took place at the Teatro Escuela La Matriz. In 2008 he founded the company La Re-sentida, of which he is artistic director and with which he has staged: Simulacro, Tratando de hacer una obra que cambie el mundo, La Imaginación del Futuro, La Dictadura de lo Cool, Paisajes para no colorear, Oasis de la Impunidad and El otro día me topé con Hamlet en el barrio Meiggs. His work has been presented in 30 countries and on more than a hundred international stages, including some of the most prestigious in the world. In his proposals he assumes as a duty to be brazen, to desacralise taboos and to reflect from provocation, giving theatrical creation a great political responsibility, understanding it as an instrument of criticism, reflection and construction. He has directed stage research processes with different communities within the framework of the projects Laboratorios Autorales and Elencos Ciudadanos. He has also worked as a teacher in various theatre schools and has given international workshops in different countries.
Premiere in Spain.
