The UPNA Theater Group will close the university show

The Theater Group of the Public University of Navarra will close its exhibition of university theater on April 24 and 25 in Civivox Iturrama with the work ‘Tejas Verdes’ by Fermín Cabal.

This exhibition consists of inviting different universities in Spain so that they can show their theatrical production. This year 2021 will be inaugurated on Monday, April 19 with the work ‘Imperator’ by the group from the Orense campus of the University of Vigo. On Tuesday, April 20, the University of Granada, Wednesday from Saint Sebastian, Thursday they come from Lion and on Friday comes the group from the University of Burgos.

The works chosen are those that each theater group is preparing during the year. Oscar Orzaiz Resano, one of the directors of the UPNA Theater Group affirms that this is a good opportunity to “see what theater they do in other universities because it is not usually easy to do it”.

Tejas Verdes was a Chilean concentration camp which was in operation during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Fermín Cabal wrote ‘Tejas Verdes’ and the play began precisely in 1998. It focuses on the role of a young woman, Colorina, who was subjected to “torture”, says Óscar Orzaiz. The work is built through seven testimonies from the people who, directly or indirectly, were decisive in the history of Colorina in Tejas Verdes.

“It is a tough story, but it shows a bit of what that time was like and also deals with the issue of historical memory. Many people disappeared and this work invites us not to fall into oblivion, ”says its director.

Among the testimonies that are collected in ‘Tejas Verdes’ and that are linked to Colorina’s character There are the doctor who treated her during her stay in the field, a colleague who shared the place with her, Pinochet’s lawyer and the informer, another colleague who under pressure did “the work of snitching the load to people”, highlights Óscar Orzaiz.

According to the words of Fermín Cabal, the story that ‘Tejas Verdes’ tells is not exactly Colorina’s, but he took his name. “The girl disappeared in the first months of the dictatorship and her body has not yet been found,” he specified. The testimonies he chose are varied and “anonymous voices, chosen from the thousands of people who have come to the network to vent their pain or leave their testimony,” Cabal concludes.

The play has been adapted because initially, Orzaiz points out, it is written for a single female monologue that plays seven different roles. On this occasion, 10 UPNA students participate and each time the interpretation of each role will be different. Josune Iglesias Goñi has been in charge of creating the common thread for the work with the work of ‘Thumbelina’, and join it to the theme of oblivion that ‘Tejas Verdes’ is about.

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