- The representation is aimed at the students of first year of Baccalaureate of the IES Santiago Basanta and has a subsequent colloquium
- The subdelegate encouraged the attendees “to think critically, act with empathy and act freely”
- It is an original work by the company ButacaZero, the creative platform of Esther F. Carrodeguas and Xavier Castiñeira, who proposes a theater that dialogues with the present from a critical and ironic perspective
The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Olimpia López, attended today the representation of the theatrical work Melón Pelado at the IES Santiago Basanta Silva de Vilalba. There, he stressed the importance of bringing culture and democratic values closer to new people and encouraged young people to “think critically, act empathetically and act freely. Historical memory is also a map for building our future.”
The performance was completed with a subsequent colloquium to favor the reflection of the first year students of Baccalaureate on these episodes of recent history.
This initiative consists of a cycle of theatrical performances in four localities of Galicia, with the impetus of the Government Delegation in Galicia and the Commissioner for the Celebration of the 50 years of Spain in freedom.
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Melón pelado proposes an initiatic journey to places of history not written or told, much less photographed, to reflect on the very fact of the memory of what has been found.
In the play, two puppets open a box of dolls that is actually a trunk of memories. Start the story. Spain, one thousand nine hundred and thirty and so. The People’s Music Band (of any town) is entertaining the show. Between the stand of churros and the stand of anise appears the procession, the parade, the comparsa. But it’s a Dantese parade of skinny dolls. The play, no doubt, looks like a hopeful. But de Valle-Inclán is not.
The proposal was born in 2024, at the initiative of the Reina Sofía Museum and, since then, is represented throughout the national territory. The piece combines oral narration, object theater and documentary and addresses the silenced history of thousands of women, who were kidnapped during the Civil War and the Postwar period.
It is an original work by the company ButacaZero, the creative platform of Esther F. Carrodeguas and Xavier Castiñeira, who proposes a theater that dialogues with the present from a critical and ironic perspective.