The Spanish company Conquesta del Pol Sud tackles the work ‘Guardians of the heart of the earth’ the ecological crisis and the exploitation of natural resources of indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon, who question the need to open up to the outside world.
The theatre company specialises in combining journalistic investigation and stage creation to present ‘documentary’ theatre.
“We work from questions that interest us,” Playwright Carles Fernández tells EFE, looking for ideas that are an alternative to current thinking: “they don’t have to be new.”
From 10 to 14 July, the Naves de Matadero in Madrid will showcase the journey back to his origins of a member of the Huni Kuin community -people of the land- of the Brazilian Amazon, where the villages in the area, threatened by the ecological crisis and the exploitation of natural resources, must decide whether to open up to the outside world, to technology and ethnotourism.
Fernández, who is also in charge of the direction, shares the authorship of ‘Guardianes del corazón de la tierra’ with Eugenio Szwarcer, Txana Bane and Gabriela Olivera, a text with which they accompany Txana Bane, a member of the Huni Kuin community, on her return to her origins.
The four of them take to the stage to show this journey back from the heart of Germany, where Bane resides half the year, to the interior of the jungle, in the state of Acre, in Brazil, one of the most remote places in the Amazon, where he has founded a community.
“We start from an analytical base that we share with the public to show what we want to discover and a question: if we can have everything in this society, how come so many people are not well?” Fernandez reflects.
The montage experiments with the impact that access to other ways of seeing the world, nature and human beings has on the Western mentality.
“We have lost connection with the land, with our environment. The setup is simple and we aim to discover the essence of some of the people we met there.”the director says, there is an open debate in the Amazonian communities about how they should open up to the outside world and to tourism.
“Everyone thinks there should be an opening, but to what extent and in what way” remains to be decided, he wonders.
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Source: Gestion
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