International CTBA season continues with "Minefield"
Within the framework of the relevant programming to the international season, the Theater Complex of Buenos Aires (CTBA) It presents the return of "minefield", the show written and directed by Lola Arias and translated by Daniel Tunnard.
The work will return to the Sala Martín Coronado enclosure located on Avenida Corrientes 1530 Thursday 31 October, involving Lou Armor, David Jackson, Gabriel Sagastume, Rubén Otero, Sukrim Rai and Marcelo Vallejo.
"Minefield" opened in 2016 at the Royal Court Theater in London, and that same year, He made a short season in Buenos Aires a roomful. Since its premiere, It was presented in 36 cities and at numerous international festivals.
With the support of the British Council, Embassy of Argentina in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Arts Council England y The Sackler Trust, This project devised by Arias brings together Argentine and British veterans of the Falklands War to explore what was in their heads, thirty-seven years later.
They will be on a film set become time machine, where those who fought teleport to the past to rebuild their memories of the war and postwar life.
In that context, Lou Armor was top of all daily when Argentines took him prisoner on April 2 and now teaches children with learning disabilities. Rubén Otero survived the sinking of the General Belgrano and now has a band tribute to the Beatles. David Jackson spent the war listening and transcribing radio codes and today listening to other veterans in his office psychologist. Gabriel Sagastume was a soldier who never wanted to shoot and today is a criminal lawyer. Sukrim Rai was a Ghurka who knew how to use his knife and currently works as a security guard. Marcelo Vallejo was pointing mortar and now triathlon champion.
The project confronts different visions of war, bringing together old enemies to tell the same story. "Minefield" explores the marks left by the war, the relationship between experience and fiction, the thousand forms of representation of memory.
from 20, the work will be from Thursday to Sunday, with tickets on sale at the box office the theater or through the official website of the CTBA, until the 15 from December.