Video Theater in Sepia

The scene is part of a play set in the near post-pandemic future. It tells the story of two women, a Mapuche and an Afro-Argentine. They are around sixty years of age and work as technicians installing COVID 19 virus sensors at traffic lights - a technology developed by Argentine scientists to measure high concentrations of the virus.

The women must have their cars to get the job, but they both move around on horseback since they don't. Their work takes place at dawn in Pergamino, a city in the province of Buenos Aires located on what was the “border” with the Mapuche nations in the 19th century.

Due to the pandemic, the play was rehearsed remotely. After two months of rehearsal, the actresses recorded their scenes in Bariloche and Buenos Aires studios.

Ref.

"I don't know if these characters met in a 19th-century grocery store. If not, today they meet on a scene where they can build furious future narratives, the fruit of age-old injustices.

Alejandra Egido

Miriam Álvarez shoots her section of the scene in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche.
Miriam Álvarez shoots her section of the scene in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Produced by Natalia Cano. Image by Natalia Cano
Alejandra Egido Shoots her scene in Buenos Aires with the production of José Lopez.
Alejandra Egido Shoots her scene in Buenos Aires with the production of José Lopez. Image: Ana Vivaldi
Miriam Álvarez watches her scene for Fuego Amigo before she continues with the shooting.
Miriam Álvarez watches her scene for Fuego Amigo before she continues with the shooting. Photo Natalia Cano.

Credits


Authorship and direction: Alejandra Egido


Cast: Alejandra Egido and Miriam Álvarez


Audiovisual production: José López and Natalia Cano 


Research: the scenes were created from the collaborative analysis of Alejandra Egido, Miriam Álvarez, Lorena Cañuqueo and Ana Vivaldi, part of the CARLA project


Clandestine drama. The dramatic text was written within the dramatic writing workshop dictated by David Arancibia and part of Clandestine Dramaturgy. Clandestine Dramaturgy is a scenic and publishing research group.