The production will be presented this Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 13, at 20:30 p.m., at the Amphitheater of the University of La Serena.

Claudia Hernández, playwright, actress, teacher and director of the Experimental Theater group of the University of La Serena, will present the production “Larynx and Sword”, a work of her own, directed by Rodrigo Medina and by the company “Teatro del Viento” , accompanied by a cast of three performers from the area. The presentation will take place this Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 13, at 20:30 p.m., in the Amphitheater Hall of the ULS, Isabel Bongard Campus (Amunátegui #851), and Your membership is voluntary.

The montage “Larynx and Sword” talks about the memory of pain and its transmutation in an autopsy room, where three thanatologists in the 80s find themselves prisoners of the collective dream that confronts the country's historical memory. It is a cleansing ritual about what condemns the memory and in the bodies through the necessary scream. In the work there are three female characters, one of them is the boss of the others, who intends to stay in her job and continue hiding the aberrations that society sees every day; while the other wants to show everything that is happening to the country and, finally, the youngest of the three suffers in silence all the pain that seeing everything that happens causes her, this is the moral-ethical conflict in which the characters in the montage.

Regarding the importance of the work, the playwright Claudia Hernández commented that "the memory of the country's pain and trauma is revisited through a dreamlike atmosphere, which contributes to the poetics of the staging, it is a form of see the events that occurred from other perspectives".

For the actress María Cecilia Aguilera, the work generates empathy between the characters and the audience, reaching the point of feeling at some point the pain of all those who lived through that period in history. "The work invites us to awaken the most hidden, our most hidden feelings to protect ourselves from memory, but we need to see the truth from the story of these three women who are the protagonists of the work," she said.

“Teatro del Viento” is one of the companies with the longest history in the Coquimbo Region, with more than 20 years on the local scene, presenting works such as "1975" and "Las preaches de Tartufo", and returns this year with a new premiere of this new montage.