On Wednesdays there are
four men
who work in an
oil well
in Patagonia.
From Thursday to Sunday, there are
four parliamentarians
debating from space how to solve Earth's problems.
The actresses that make up the group
Piel de Lava
propose a
dichotomous dramatic experience
between their fifth piece and the most recent.
A struggle between the logic of the masculine universe and the sparks of the feminine world in politics.
The Lava Skins are Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos.
Petróleo
is a play that returns every year
supported
by a mutant audience, which goes from the Sarmiento Theater to the San Martín and from there to the Metropolitan, the epitome of Corrientes Street.
The actresses
Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes
formed Piel de Lava two decades ago and since then they have composed works with eight hands (sometimes with 10).
In 2003 they debuted with
True Colors
, followed by
Neblina
(2005),
Tren
(2010) and
Museo
(2014).
But it was in 2018 that
Petróleo
transformed them into a phenomenon.
Male bodies in action
The piece presents four workers at a Patagonian oil well who
live together
, punished by the harsh climate of the south.
Each of them
builds a man
: they do not act as men, they do not imitate the masculine, they reflect on the ways in which a body with an X and a Y chromosome
inhabits space and is linked
to its environment.
Carli is the
alpha
of that group, the one who
sets the law
, the one who can wear down the rest or challenge them, while Formosa and Montoya orbit around him, accepting verbal
or physical
lashes .
Added to them is Palla, whose condition as a male admits two disruptive characteristics: he is not a docile worker and
challenges
by naturalizing aspects linked to the feminine.
In
Parliament
, for its part, the climate is
futuristic
: four legislators debate
from space
how to resolve the political, social and environmental crisis that turned Earth into
a wasteland of violence and annihilation
.
Parliament, in Arthaus.
These
powerful women
who roam the ArtHaus scene operate on two levels: on the one hand, they expose the
irrationality
of contemporary politics, but they also look at how the feminine also drives
the worst of corruption and abuse
.
Oil
carries more than 200 functions.
Parliament
exhausts its functions months before.
"Culture is a great refuge and we deeply believe that it can alleviate
people's
existence ," say the Piel de Lava.
They are not wrong.