©Fran Razeto-GAM

Confined to his home during lockdown, Malicho Vaca sat down in front of his computer and began collecting memories from the residents of Santiago. His goal was to tell the story of his neighbourhood, located in the heart of the Chilean capital, a vibrant area where all gatherings and political demonstrations start. But as he collected those testimonies, what was meant only as a personal research project transformed into an unidentified scenic object. Reminiscencia is an immobile journey. In this country “where there are immense blue skies in which one can read but where one doesn’t know what is hidden in the ground,” the director digs into the earth: a simple click on a digital map and he uncovers mysterious loves and repressed revolutions, so many fragments of an intimate and collective memory.

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Malicho Vaca

Chilean artist Malicho Vaca Valenzuela has been working in the theatrical field for fifteen years as an author, director and actor. He has written six plays to date, and is currently in the creative process for a new project. His work tackles a variety of themes including sexual diversity, gender and human rights. His projects are also nourished by the study of Latin American narratives and memory, as well as a reflection on biographical writing. A delicate and sensitive approach to different technological formats enables Malicho to expose his creative process to the audience as well as to write, from a position of vulnerability, an autobiography that is interwoven with the history of a territory marked by multiple revolutionary failures.​

With: Rosa Alfaro, Malicho Vaca Valenzuela, Lindor Valenzuela 

Text, creation, direction, dramaturgy and video: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela 

Lighting: Nicolás Zapata 

Assistant director: Ébana Garín Coronel 

Stage management and video: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela 

Stage manager: Ébana Garín Coronel 

Administration, production, distribution: Ébana Garín, Luis Guenel, Roni Isola, Fundación Cuerpo Sur Production
Production: Ébana Garín, Luis Guenel, Roni Isola

Acknowledgements To my grandparents 

Malicho Vaca Valenzuela is an artist associated with Fundación Cuerpo Sur.