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Contemporary theatre show by the Galician company Chévere that blends fiction and documentary material to reflect on memory through the repression in Galicia and the murder of Alexandre Bóveda.

ICTUS is a contemporary theatre show by the Galician company Chévere that combines fiction with documentary material. The story begins with a woman who says she suffered a stroke after attending an institutional event in Santiago de Compostela and who, since then, has a fragmented memory. To understand why she was there and what the painting A derradeira leición do mestre meant to her, she embarks on a search that leads her to reconstruct that day and, with it, her own identity.

The dramatic axis is the last painting by Alfonso R. Castelao, known as the "Galician Guernica" because it bears witness to the repression that followed the 1936 coup in Galicia. Castelao painted it in 1945 in homage to Alexandre Bóveda, a public official and leader of the Galician nationalist movement, who was executed by firing squad after a summary trial imposed by the rebels. From that point, the work reflects on democratic memory and on how societies build, preserve or reinterpret their past.

The staging interweaves documentary material, historical references and the protagonist's personal experience. The production raises the question of why preserving memory sustains democracy and how discourses about the past come to be contested and inherited. All performances are accessible. It is staged at the Teatro Valle-Inclán, in Madrid.