Play.
Argentina, early 1990s. Sandra and Dunia, childhood friends who were detained
and disappeared by the dictatorship in a concentration camp for being
pacifists, reunite after Sandra's years in exile.
The
emotional reunion gives way to the shocking realization of how the dictatorship
managed to separate them and create two communities: one for those who stayed
and one for those condemned to exile.
Suddenly,
an abyss opens before their eyes, leaving them on opposite shores.
Can
they build a bridge to unite them?
Dr. Susana D. Castillo, University of San Diego, United States:
“…...the
play explores the uprooting of its two characters on different levels. On one
level, the play deals with the anxious reunion of two women separated for ten
years…
Aptly,
the initial encounter is choreographed as a slow dance in which the two women
try to find each other—as if in a mist—while simultaneously suppressing the
outward expression of their conflicting emotions… Thus, they will move—with
caution and restraint—from reminiscence to laughter, from song to nostalgia,
from distance…to the tango!...
(...)
It is worth adding that Viviana Marcela Iriart—novelist and journalist—sought
refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy at the age of 21, a period that marked the
beginning of her exile, which would take her to various parts of the world
before she settled in Venezuela…”
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Viviana Marcela Iriart (1958) is an Argentine-Venezuelan writer, playwright, and interviewer.
She has published "La Casa Lila" ( novel), "Interviews" (interviews with cultural figures, in English), and "¡Bravo, Carlos Giménez!" (biography). She compiled the free-to-read book "María Teresa Castillo-Carlos Giménez-Festival Internacional de Teatro de Caracas 1973-1992", a collaborative work with José Pulido, Rolando Peña, Karla Gómez, Carmen Carmona, and Roland Streuli.
"A DOOR OPEN TO THE SEA", as well as her forthcoming novel "Lejos de Casa", is based on her experiences with the Argentine dictatorship and exile.
