Petróleo

The Argentine company Piel de Lava performs a production on 21 and 22 October at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque that explores the construction of masculine identities and the stereotypes associated with gender, while investigating the possibilities of making fiction through group procedures.

An oil field in Patagonia is the setting of Piel de Lava's fifth work, which places four men in a trailer, a few metres from an almost exhausted oil well. While they work to extract the last reserves from the ground, the time outside the working day passes amid the dust, the dark stories of the area and various physical challenges.

With the participation of the actresses Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes, the piece thus sets two spaces and two ways of confronting matter against each other. Underground, the rock is fractured to reach the last drops of oil, and on the surface the four men build their own reality through games, stories and shared rituals. The company uses coexistence and the interaction between its characters as material for creation, focusing on the ways of relating to, performing and inhabiting the masculine.

Artistic team:

Playwriting and direction - Piel de Lava and Laura Fernández

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

Music and sound design - Zypce

Lighting - Matías Sendón and Santiago Badillo

Costumes - Gabriela A. Fernández

Set design - Rodrigo González Garillo

Production coordination - Ianina Maglia

Company - Piel de Lava

Collaboration - CTBA (Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires)

Approximate running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes Recommended age: from 12 years