Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar
Synopsis
All butterflies die in the sea is a physical theater play that addresses the oppression of the female body and motherhood as a biopolitical entity.
The story immerses us in the moments prior to the decision made by the protagonist, spurred by the postpartum depression she suffers, and capturing the transience of the final moments before death, making visible the tensions and contradictions built and perpetuated in the collective unconscious.
This work seeks to desacralize postpartum depression and question the role of women in society as producers and reproducers of bodies. From a feminist perspective, it examines the mechanisms of regulation of this and confronts issues such as public health, laws and economics, evidencing the doubt, loneliness, freedom, time, love, desires, fear, and anger, from a poetically raw place, allowing us to unweave what has been learned.
Playwright
Heny Roig Monge
Actress, Master in Arts (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) with the research, Body: Territory of Resistance, examining limits and counter behavioral tensions in three contemporary Chilean plays. She holds a degree in Theater with a minor in Theater Pedagogy from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano.
She has worked as an actress, teacher, playwright, theater director, manager, producer and stage researcher, developing her work in prominent spaces of the arts and culture in Chile and abroad, specializing in various instances of training and research related to the problematization of the politics and aesthetics of the body.
Co-Author of the book, Del grito a la creación: La disconformidad como alma de la dramaturgia, conversaciones con Juan Radrigán, through ediciones Cuarto Propio and included in the first online catalog of performing arts publishers in 2020 (Chile).
Staged Reading Artistic Team
Katrin Hilbe, Director
Award-winning Off-Broadway director/dramaturg of opera and theatre, Katrin, works in the US and Europe. She is Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women, President of IG Arts and Culture in Liechtenstein, and a member of The Actors Studio, TRU, DG, and SDC. Founder of ManyTracks Inc., her productions have been seen in New York, Edinburgh, Rome, and more, winning awards like the Hilton Edwards Award. She holds an MA from the University of Berne.