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I'll Melt the Snow off a Volcano with a Match (Derritere con un cerillo la nieve de un volcan) archive

Fact meets fiction, national stories become personal, and history leads to the present day in this potent piece of documentary theatre, made by Mexico's most politically active artistic collective. Between 1929 and 2000, one party, the PRI, governed Mexico. As elections loomed in 2012 and it prepared to resume power once more, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol began to investigate the policies of intimidation and violence that had sustained this democratic regime for so long. Archive video footage, projections, real statistics and historical sound combine with the imagined account of the final days of ?disappeared' writer, Natalia Valdez, played out by just three actors onstage. The result is a hard-hitting documentary play that deconstructs a disturbing period of modern Mexican history. As a topical work of political protest, it reflects the pent-up tensions of living under a corrupt regime. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Luisa Pardo, Gabino Rodriguez
Presented by: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Other(s): Yulene Olaizola (video), Gabino Rodriguez (video)
Lighting: Sergio Lopez Vigueras
Costume: Ursula Lascurain

I'll Melt the Snow off a Volcano with a Match (Derritere con un cerillo la nieve de un volcan)

I'll Melt the Snow off a Volcano with a Match (Derritere con un cerillo la nieve de un volcan) (Play) production archive for QTIX code T0920451472. Details of all I'll Melt the Snow off a Volcano with a Match (Derritere con un cerillo la nieve de un volcan) archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S02106475381

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9 Oct 15
to
10 Oct 15

The Pit, Barbican Centre
West End, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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