ICTUS (anatomía de 'A derradeira leición' de Castelao)
CHÉVERE
ICTUS
PERFORMING ARTS · THEATRE
World premiere
Castelao en Escena Focus
In conversation: 20 February
Recommended age: 13+
Duration: 105 min, no interval
Language: Galician, Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
ICTUS is a play about memory: about the deep connection between a strong collective memory and a healthy democracy, and about the still-open wounds of historical memory. Its guiding thread is A derradeira leición do mestre, the last painting signed by Castelao in exile, when he was already almost blind.
Chévere’s proposal traces a reverse journey through time, following the painting from its reception in Galicia in 2018 —organised by the Galician Government to include it in an exhibition devoted to education— back to its first public presentation at the Centro Ourensán in Buenos Aires on 17 August 1945. This date, the ninth anniversary of the execution of Alexandre Bóveda by the coupist military, was declared the Day of the Martyrs of Galicia by the Galician community in exile.
The company constructs a documentary stage device in which multiple voices and testimonies engage in dialogue with the personal story of a woman who suffers memory loss due to acquired brain injury, following a stroke experienced during the very act of receiving the painting at the Cidade da Cultura in 2018.
The result is a theatrical journey that invites us to reflect on how narratives of memory are constructed —and contested—.
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ICTUS (anatomía de 'A derradeira leición' de Castelao)
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