{"id":1189,"date":"2019-12-11T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=theatre&#038;p=1189"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:40:23","slug":"un-teatro-sin-cuerpos-a-theatre-without-bodies","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/un-teatro-sin-cuerpos-a-theatre-without-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Un teatro sin cuerpos \/ A theatre without bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Un escalofr\u00edo fr\u00edo me recorre la espalda, tengo miedo (nunca he sentido miedo en el teatro, he sentido un miedo hipot\u00e9tico, nunca un miedo real). Para acceder a la sala, hay que pasar un t\u00fanel estrecho que desciende hacia una b\u00f3veda de tierra, la luz es opaca. Avanzo con todos mis sentidos alerta, solo escucho el ruido de mis pasos en la tierra mojada, un olor pastoso penetra mi nariz, no logro percibir el final del t\u00fanel, mis ojos a\u00fan no se acostumbran a la falta de luz. Me dijeron que ten\u00eda que venir abrigada, el vaho comienza a salir de boca y me hundo en el cuello del abrigo. Al fin veo una claridad: la b\u00f3veda es peque\u00f1a y somos apenas unas quince personas. Todos parecen expectantes y cautelosos, igual que yo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Una mujer est\u00e1 sentada con los brazos en el regazo y los ojos apenas entreabiertos. Parece esperar a que hagamos silencio, su inmovilidad es absoluta. \u201cEn el teatro de la memoria, los fantasmas son convocados a contar sus relatos. Silencio.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mi est\u00f3mago se estremece, me pregunto si habr\u00e9 hecho bien en venir. Poco a poco un espectro se hace visible entre nosotros. Me hab\u00edan dicho que los esp\u00edritus que aparec\u00edan pod\u00edan ser conocidos de los espectadores. Afortunadamente no es el caso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Igualmente resulta impactante: el rostro perplejo del aparecido que vuelve de la muerte, las cuencas de sus ojos que despiertan otra vez en medio del horror de haber sido da\u00f1ado por otro ser humano, su voz desapegada y mon\u00f3tona, cansada de repetir incansablemente su desdicha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No hay sobresaltos, solo una suerte de incomprensi\u00f3n en nuestro af\u00e1n por testimoniar nuevamente su aniquilaci\u00f3n. \u201c\u00bfPara qu\u00e9 quieres atisbar este abismo oscuro de lo humano? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 quieres abandonar la comodidad de tu ignorancia y sumergirte en este foso del que yo misma quisiera salir?\u201d parece decir con todas las fibras del que fue su cuerpo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Estoy frente a un teatro de los recuerdos, donde los cuerpos han desaparecido. Los \u00fanicos cuerpos son los de la audiencia, y el persistente silencio que nos invade, duele, y averg\u00fcenza. Aunque algunos esc\u00e9pticos all\u00e1 afuera lo nieguen, aunque digan que es una intrincada estafa realizada con los m\u00e1s sofisticados efectos especiales, s\u00e9 que los asesinatos de la dictadura existieron. El horror sucedi\u00f3 y seguir\u00e1 repiti\u00e9ndose en un eco cada noche aunque no queramos verlo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A cold chill travels up my spine &#8212; I\u2019m afraid (I have never felt scared in the theatre; I\u2019ve felt hypothetical fear, never real fear). To enter the room, you have to go through a narrow tunnel that descends toward a cavern in the earth. The light is opaque. I advance with all my senses alert: I only hear the sound of my steps on wet dirt; a thick smell penetrates my nose; I can\u2019t perceive the end of the tunnel for my eyes are still not accustomed to the lack of light. They told me I had to come wearing a coat; I can see my breath and I bury myself in the collar of my coat. Finally I see with clarity: the cavern is small and we are barely fifteen people. Everyone looks expectant and cautious, just like me.<\/p>\n<p>A woman is seated with arms across her chest and her eyes barely half open. She seems to wait until we are silent; her immobility is absolute. \u201cIn the theatre of memory, the phantoms are gathered to tell their stories. Silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach rumbles. I ask myself if I did the right thing in coming. Bit by bit a specter becomes visible among us. They had told me that the spirits that would appear might be known by the spectators. Fortunately, this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the scene is still shocking. The perplexed face of the apparition who has returned from the dead, the eye sockets awakened again in the midst of the horror of having been hurt by another human being; the detached and monotonous voice, tired of incessantly repeating its misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is shocked. We only experience a kind of incomprehension in our eagerness to witness its death again.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to say with all the fibers of its body: \u201cWhy do you want to observe this dark abyss of humanity? Why do you want to abandon the comfort of your ignorance and submerge yourself in this grave that I myself would like to leave?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am facing a theatre of memories, where the bodies have disappeared. The only bodies are those of the audience amidst the persistent silence that invades us, hurts us, and embarrasses us. Although some skeptics out there\u00a0 will deny it, although they will say it\u2019s an intricate scam realized with the most sophisticated special effects, I know that the dictatorship\u2019s assassinations existed. The horror happened and will continue to repeat itself in an echo each night although we don\u2019t want to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Un escalofr\u00edo fr\u00edo me recorre la espalda, tengo miedo (nunca he sentido miedo en el teatro, he sentido un miedo hipot\u00e9tico, nunca un miedo real). Para acceder a la sala, hay que pasar un t\u00fanel estrecho que desciende hacia una b\u00f3veda de tierra, la luz es opaca. Avanzo con todos mis sentidos alerta, solo [&hellip;]","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/theatre"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}