Mariano Pensotti

Los años

Archive 2022

Theatre

1/3

1h45

Text and staging, Mariano Pensotti
Collectif Grupo Marea (Mariano Pensotti, Mariana Tirantte, Diego Vainer, Florencia Wasser)
Featuring Javier Lorenzo, Mara Bestelli, Bárbara Masso, Paco Gorriz, Julian Keck
Musician, Diego Vainer
Stage work, Aljoscha Begrich and Martín Valdés-Stauber (Münchner Kammerspiele)
Choreography, Luciana Acuña
Décor and costumes, Mariana Tirantte
Lights, David Seldes
Musical composition, Diego Vainer
Video, Martín Borini
Sound, Ernesto Fara
Staging assistant, Juan Reato
Artistic production, Florencia Wasser
Traduction, Guillermo Pisano
Subtitles, Manon Bertrand

Produced by Grupo Marea
Production of Europe tour delegated to Festival d’Automne à Paris
Broadcast ART HAPPENS
Co-produced by Ruhrtriennale (Bochum); Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich); HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin); Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt); Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires
Co-directed by Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from the Goethe Institut

In partnership with France Culture

Is it possible to imagine our lives in thirty years now? Is it possible to cast a retrospective gaze on our present? In his latest creation, Mariano Pensotti puts his masterful storytelling skills to use in a piece of theatre in which the future, as uncertain as it may be, is unveils itself as a redeeming fiction.

Buenos Aires, 2020. A young architect makes a documentary about an orphan from one of the poor districts of the city. Buenos Aires, 2050. The film was a success. But did it actually change anything in the life of the young boy? And what has become of the now ageing filmmaker? His daughter was born thirty years ago, has become an actress and wants to do a piece of theatre about the life of her father. The timing is just right: in 2050, the theatres are full because people are fed up with looking at screens, and videos, they are desperate for the performing arts. The scenography of Los años (The Years) enables the characters to circulate freely, within a single space, between different era, and grow older or younger before the audience’s eyes. We witness the different simultaneous metamorphoses of the family, which are also those of a family in search of a future – or who invents one.