No mires. A partir de la historia de Verónica y Camila Estay

Following the productions Hay alguien en el bosque and Moríos, the collective Cultura i Conflicte returns to the Teatro de La Abadía to present, from 22 October to 1 November in the Sala José Luis Alonso, a work that explores the wounds and silences of the Chilean dictatorship.

The project grows out of an extensive process of research and documentation that brings together direct testimonies, video fragments and archive material relating to the Chilean dictatorship. The production is directed by Joan Arqué and features actors Pep Cruz, Erol Ileri, Marta Marco and Gemma Martínez.

The show takes as its starting point the story of Verónica Estay Stange, daughter of people persecuted by the dictatorship and niece of Miguel Estay, known as ‘El Fanta’, one of the collaborators of the regime's repressive apparatus. From that complex and painful family inheritance, the protagonist sets out on a search to put words to the silences that have marked her life, to reconstruct the different versions of events and to try to understand the rift that divided her own family.

The result is a show based on experimentation and on dialogue between different artistic languages: sound, music, gesture and visual art intertwine to shape a narrative that moves constantly between individual and collective memory.

The piece presents a gallery of characters positioned on the border between political commitment, betrayal, guilt and silence, and raises questions that go beyond the particular case of the Estay family: How does one recognise a monster? To what extent could anyone occupy that place? What happens to love when the loved one is rejected by society? How does one live with a past that seems impossible to face?

With the structure and tension of a thriller, the production delves into the grey areas of human nature and the emotional abysses left by political violence.