Parlamento

The Centro Cultural Conde Duque hosts the Madrid premiere of the work by the Argentine company Piel de Lava on 23 and 24 October. A production that offers a critical look at the theatricality of contemporary political discourse through a dystopian setting.

With the participation of actors Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes, Valeria Correa and Zypce, the show explores how, in a future where the Earth has been reduced to an abstraction and turned into a distant "below" besieged by flames, four female deputies remain safe on a spacecraft that keeps them in orbit.

From this Global Orbit Parliament, politicians continue to carry out their institutional functions in a permanent and circular debate. They vote on laws, sing anthems and reproduce the rituals proper to parliamentary activity while the world they should represent burns beneath them.

The piece thus explores the boundary between politics and representation, and focuses on the performative dimension of modern speeches and institutions. In the midst of collapse, the four deputies cling to their gestures, ceremonies and rallies as if the repetition of these forms could keep upright the political order of a society that has already fallen apart.

Artistic credits:

Direction and dramaturgy - Piel de Lava: Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes, Valeria Correa

Cast - Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes, Valeria Correa and Zypce

Set and costume design - Rodrigo González Garillo

Lighting - Santiago Badillo

Original music, sound design - Zypce

Production and directing assistance - Ianina Maglia

Photography - Sebastián Arpesella

Graphic design - Pablo Sternbach

Company - Piel de Lava

Approximate duration: 1 hour and 20 minutes. Recommended age: 12 and over