Theatre
Testosterona
- Dirección de Lorena Vega | Performer Cristian Alarcón
- Country: Argentine
- Premiere: 2024
- Target audience: +13 years
- Length: 60 minutes
World premiered during the Teatro a Mil 2024 International Festival, Testosterone was selected for its daring aesthetic and narrative innovation, the result of a year of laboratory work and experimentation between Alarcón and Vega, accompanied by a multidisciplinary team of renowned artists.
The performative work experiences the disconcerting effects of a child injected with that hormone, the disobedience of that growing body that migrates and wants to try everything; the masculinities longed for by the Nazis for their army's men.
Testosterone is born from childhood trauma and engages with new notions of the future. It pushes the known boundaries of non-fiction representations: it is theater, it is dance, it is performance, it is biodrama, it is video art, it is a sound universe. Through visual and musical experiences and procedures, it redefines the borders of our intervened bodies, bordering on the cyborg without losing sensitivity.
The trigger for this play is the first-person testimony of Cristian Alarcón, director of Revista Anfibia and winner of the Alfaguara 2022 award, who for the first time reconstructs this part of his personal history. Alarcón delves into his memory and his past to answer the question about what were the effects of the testosterone injection on masculinity. How can we think about a self-critical, reconstructed masculinity, a possible future, a new paradise?
The autobiographical, journalistic investigation and scenic play are the paths that articulate this artistic piece in a triple-order assembly: sound, visual and corporal.
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Credits:
Direction
Lorena Vega
Performers
Cristián Alarcón, Tomás de Jesús
Artistic Direction:
Mariana Tirantte
Art Assistant:
Lara Stilstein
Lightning:
Ricardo Sica
Movement Design and Choreography:
Jazmín Titiunik
Original Music
Sebastián Schachtel |
Audiovisual Design:
José Jiménez y Blas Lamagn
Photography:
Nora Lezano
Graphic Design
Sebastián Angresano, Maria Elizagaray y Francesca Cantore
General production:
Sol Dinerstein, Julieta Hantouch
Director's assistant:
Martina De Giorgio
Press and communication:
María Mansilla, Amanda Marton y Andrés Alarcón
Biographies:
Lorena Vega
Actress, director, and teacher. She works in theater, film, and television. Author of the play Imprenteros, where she addresses the documentary work about the trades and the family. She is in charge of the Performing Laboratory in the Master of Narrative Journalism at the School of Humanities UNSAM. She received several awards: ACE 2016 as Best Actress in Unipersonal, Luisa Vehil 2017; UNCIPAR 38 Award; Teatro XXI Award for Best Actress 2015 and the María Guerrero Revelation Award 2011. She is currently directing Precoz, and acting in La vida extraordinaria, Las Cautivas, and Yo Encarnación Ezcurra.
Cristián Alarcón
Writer and journalist. Winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize 2022. Since the early 90's he has been dedicated to investigative journalism and chronicle writing in newspapers and magazines. In his books Cuando me muera quiero que me toquen cumbia (2003) and Si me querés, quereme transa (2010) he crosses literature with urban ethnography turning urgent stories into non-fiction novels. In the book Un mar de castillos peronistas (2013) he writes travel chronicles and profiles of dissident characters. He founded the magazine Anfibia and the site Cosecha Roja. There he has experimented with the limits of non-fiction narrative until taking it to a final experience of journalistic performance.
Premios:
Alfaguara Novel Award, 2022
for his novel The Third Paradise
Konex Award, 2014
in the Chronicles and Testimonies Category
Previous dates:
February, March and April 2024
Teatro Astros, Buenos Aires, Argentina
January2024
Premier Teatro a Mil Internacional Festival, Teatro Mori, Santiago, Chile.
