La última luz

“Tú y yo oprimiendo al otro, no es Pinter, ni Beckett, es solo una historia de un crimen.”

Written by Camilo Vergara

Directed by Ignacio García Bustelo

Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022, 6:00 PM EST

Language: Spanish

Hashtag: #Cimientos2022

Location: IATI Theater (64 E. 4th St., NYC 10003)

Website: Facebook Page

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Synopsis

Diego decides to write and direct a theatrical play about a topic he has spent time repressing: his parents’ story, both environmental activists assassinated in the 90s in Colombia. Diego understands that the only way to write an honest theater is to discover and portray what happened the night of the crime and the days that preceded it. In the life-size replica of his life that he has created in the theater, he discovers that his parents had lives different from those he’d imagined, that their moral complexity made them more human, and that those who ordered the crime were part of a web of corruption that still persists and is in a position of power. Fiction and reality will become indistinguishable, and Diego will only be free to live his life when he has been able to tell his story in the theater.

About the Playwright

Camilo Vergara lives and works in Berlin. His first radio play, The Guilt, was a finalist in the UK's BBC International Drama Competition. In 2016, with his play Puerto Soledad, he became the winner of the Hispanic American Floral Games in Guatemala. That same year, he was the winner of the Idartes Short Story Prize. His play Puerto Soledad won the Stimulus for Theatrical Creation from the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2018, and premiered at La Candelaria theater. In 2019, he was selected by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation to do a writing residency on the island of Farö in Sweden. From this experience, he began to write the play Silencios, winner of the Recognition of Playwrighting for the Theater from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia in 2020.

Cast

Maria Peyramaure

Germán Jaramillo

Fernando Gazzaniga

Laura Riveros-Sefair