Wiener Festwochen

The lizards wanted to rebel instead of basking in the sun: the juxtaposition of the self-deprecating humour in the name of this very young artists’ collective from Mexico (the nominal lizards basking in the sun) and the title of their long-term project La rebeldía (Rebellion) makes for a clearcut programme. “Stage investigators” Luisa Pardo and Gabino Rodríguez conducted detailed research into the armed resistance put up by the Mexican guerrilla movement between 1960 and 1990 and its struggle for the indigenous population’s land rights and equality before the law and against the unchecked power wielded for decades by the “Institutional Revolutionary Party” (PRI). In addition to blogs and books about this issue, they also created a visually impressive, dramatically intense and precisely documented stage production that presents the life story of one guerrilla fighter as a stand-in for many others. Spectators realise quickly that this dramatic research into an actual revolt was conceived neither as a didactic history lesson nor as an agitprop-inspired call to arms. Rather, the authors/actors are searching for their own, contemporary points of contact with the revolutionary past and its protagonists. How can the country be changed in other ways than armed combat? What forms of fighting and resistance are a thing of the past and have been discredited? What can be the face of dissidence today? And could it be hereditary?

Co-Ordination and Text Luisa Pardo, Gabino Rodríguez Design and Iconographic Research Juan Leduc Video Yulene Olaizola Light Design Marcela Flores, Juanpablo Avendaño Assistant Mariana Villegas Video Assistant Carlos Gamboa Modelmaker Francisco Barreiro Technical Video Consultant Emiliano Leyva Cast Francisco Barreiro, Luisa Pardo, Gabino Rodríguez Actors in the Video Harold Torres, Cesar Ríos, Mariana Villegas

Guest Performance
Co-Production Lagartijas tiradas al sol, Mexico City, Teatro de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

19 €/discounts