Free roaming mares (Chile)
Team
Directior and author: Ernesto Orellana GómezSet, costume and graphics design: Jorge Zambrano
Lighting design: Catalina Devia/ Juan Curiche
Audiovisual design: Wincy Oyarce
Sound design: Marcello Matínez
Press Officer: Francisca Palma
General Production: Macarena Guzmán Rivas
Cast: Lorenza Quezada, Ymar Fuentes, Mala Reyes, Bruna Ramirez, Matías Catlán
Duration: 2 h
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Estonian, English, Russian
A production by Teatro SUR commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first homosexual protest held in Chile in April 1973, during the Popular Unity Government, prior to the coup d’état and the beginning of the civil-military dictatorship.
The production investigates and draws inspiration from interviews, press archives, and visual, musical and audiovisual imagery from the 1970s, portraying the vicissitudes and conflicts of a group of female queens and impoverished transvestites who took over the Plaza de Armas in Santiago to reveal the police violence and discrimination they suffered on a daily basis; a cultural recognition of the protagonists of that iconic protest, investigating its causes and consequences, recognizing its historical character in the trajectory of the Homosexual Movement in Chile, and wondering about the unfinished sexual memories, about the lives of the transvestite communities, and about the accumulated scars of discrimination.
The title of the proposal, Yeguas Sueltas (Free-Roaming Mares), quotes an article from the newspaper ‘El Clarín’ (1973) that shows culturalized homophobia and, through a queer operation that gives new meaning to the normalised insult, combines contemporary theatre, political memory, homosexual culture and sexual dissidence activism.
