Te Recuerdo is a musical drama inspired by the songs of the Chilean poet and martyr Victor Jara. The text explores, through the eyes of a teenager, daughter of exiles, questions of parentage, identity and rootlessness. Latin American melodies, arranged by Quito Gato, color a text sometimes joyful, sometimes dramatic.
Te Recuerdo ("I remember you") is the story of Amanda, a young woman of today who wants to reconnect with a country and a time that she has not known: Chile's dictatorship military. Her father and mother were exiled to flee the violence of the regime. Young Adult, never having set foot in the country of her parents, she feels the need to assume his ancestry to afford to build a future, and begins a journey that will reveal fabulous, initiation, cathartic.
The show travels between the 70s and the end of the 2000s, between Allende's death and Pinochet's death, to tell, from one birth to
another, the story of a generation.
The text raises the question of impossible memory of direct descendants of refugees, those who grow up with a cut root, the so-called "second generation immigrants" : more silence is heavy, the greater the fantasy of origins, more so when the break with the country of origin was violent for parents. The past becomes heroic legend, myth, sometimes extremely confusing, often identity issues.
A Compagnie Zdenko's show, under the artistic direction of Emiliano Gonzalez Toro.
Showcases : October 21st 2015 (18.00) at Opéra de Lille
November 5th, 6th and 7th 2015 (20.30) at the TAC (Territoire Art & Création), Paris (Bois-Colombes, métro 13, station Les Agnettes)
Creation : April 22nd and 23rd 2016 at Forum de Meyrin (Genève, Switzerland)
Texts : Mathilde Etienne / Songs : Victor Jara, Ariel Ramirez, Sergio Ortega, Quilapayun / Arrangements : Quito Gato.
With Mathilde Etienne, actress / Ophélie Gaillard, cello / Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor / Pancho Gonzalez, tenor, guitar / Quito Gato, piano and guitar / Luis Rigou, flutes, voice.
