"Sirenas" is the name of the staging that was the winner of the contest launched by the Cervantes National Theater and in this way, the work done by Gabriel Jiménez from Mendoza, will be staged.

Jiménez's text was chosen by the jury from 1548 projects presented within the framework of the "Nuestro Teatro" contest and will now be performed and directed by artists from the traditional Buenos Aires venue, in collaboration with the National Theater Institute.

The Mendoza director represented the Nuevo Cuyo region with his work in the contest that was intended to stimulate and generate content with a solidarity project, so that the performing arts continue to function.

The final selection jury was made up of Romina Chepe, Monica J. Paixao and by the authorities of the Cervantes Theater itself, Rubén D’Audia and Sebastián Blutrach.

In the coming weeks the pre-production process of each work will begin, with the call to directors and conformation of artistic and technical casts. The rehearsal stage will begin once the protocol of the corresponding theatrical activity is approved.

Regarding "Sirens", recounts the routine of a neighborhood supermarket that is altered by the particular initiative of one of its customers and the effect this generates on the rest of the people present.

Slowly the outside begins to filter in the form of mermaids that invade that bunker in which they are. That song is the only thing that can enter or leave the place, while those who listen to him are less and less like those who entered the supermarket that morning.

The work explores some of the themes that the writer and poet has been addressing from poetry: the violence, inequality and extractivism. “It is a hyper-realistic proposal whose characters take the voice to demonstrate the maintenance or fall of an order / system around gender issues, classes and the romanticization of a way out of all this”, details its author who debuts, with this text, in dramaturgy.

Humor contains a certain tragedy, in this story that places us in the daily life of a neighborhood supermarket, the moment an unexpected event occurs. Gabriel explains: “Although there is a tone that at times is close to comedy, plot twists mean that the play never ends. Underlies, as well, a critique - in the sense of analysis- about what we think should not happen”.