In Peru a long period of subversive violence has deeply marked the country. Between the injuries of this dirty war, one kept open: the one of the missing persons, thousands of kidnapped persons whose bodies have never been found, letting entire communities in fear and doubt. Today, Peruvian people see horror coming back while clandestine graves are discovered in several regions of Peru. It is important for us to know all the truth about where did they take the missing ones and all the victims of the war. Memory for the Absents superimpose past and present, life and death and faces up the responsible ones for these crimes.
For more than 20 years the Vichama Teatro has developed in Villa el Salvador, Peru. Directed by Cesar Escuza Norero, the group offers an intimate theatre based on the social development of their community and their environment. The team consists of young actors, committed to their acting, who are working and fighting on a daily basis for the liberalization of arts and culture with the aim to make it accessible for everybody.
Vichama’s art actively engages the community with the intention to motivate reflection on our values, identity and means of social transformation. In their opinion, art should be seen as a medium to transform human relationships and to shape the people in our environment with values. For them, the theatre is the right platform to do so.
Vichama is a visionary theatre, which is healing, pedagogical, and transformative at the same time.
