The artists involved in the staging of Los Murmullos (The Murmuring) decide to jump into the mud of the most recent Argentine history. All scene elements -actors, text, setting, lighting, music- take a stand on the dark side of the theatrical moon and assume a politically incorrect viewpoint on a sensitive issue: the children of the disappeared by last military dictatorship. The anecdote as such is brief, but its formal development is shocking and annoying. Following the guidance of Dante and Virgil, a missing person’s child returns to the detention center where his father got missing to have a talk with his ghost. Against all prediction, the talk is not the least kind but bitter: the son has returned to complain to his father for having opted for political struggle instead of being his father, a historical dilemma of generations with no possible solution. Thus, Rosario, the protagonist, decides to break up with the chain of paternal commands that has sacrificed their children, devouring them like Saturn. Like an undercranked film made with found footage, the staging of Los Murmullos faces us with a vortex of quotations and references that fueled the last 40 years of history.

With
MARICEL ALVAREZ
BELÉN BLANCO
LUIS CANO
MARTÍN POLICASTRO
ALBERTO SUÁREZ

Text
LUIS CANO
Production
COMPLEJO TEATRAL DE BUENOS AIRES
Assistant to the director
SILVIA CONTRERAS
DANIEL KARGIEMAN
Artistic Assistant
BETINA CARBAJALES
EZEQUIEL STEINMAN
Assistant to the set designer
JULIETA MARÍA POTENZE
Tango choreography
DANIEL SANSOTTA
Sound installation and assistant to the music designer
MARCELO MARTÍNEZ
Music and sound
ABEL GILBERT
Costumes
MIRTA LIÑEIRO
Set
NORBERTO LAINO
Lighting
ALEJANDRO LE ROUX
Directed by
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI


Sala Cunil Cabanellas, Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002.

Fotos Carlos Furman