CRA’P Presentations 2025
Sunday 30 March, 19h
CRA’P space
CRA’P presents “Unipersonal con canto de cigarras”. At the end there will be a post-performance discussion with actress and author Marcela De Grande, who has come especially from Argentina.
Unipersonal con canto de cigarras is a play and object theatre, written and performed by Marcela De Grande and directed by Germán Rodríguez.
The play was created from 24 life stories of grandchildren who were reinstated by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, children of the disappeared who were stolen during the military dictatorship, and later found (more than 40 years later) by their biological families. The author, a contemporary of these grandchildren, carried out a work of research and reconstruction of social memory and individual identities, combining candid and even amusing moments of her own childhood and adolescence with documented stories of the other boys and girls.
Thus, between the innocent laughter of a little girl’s gaze and the tears born of the awareness of pain, the destinies of all of them show the complexity of what happened in that atrocious period in Argentina, the impact that still has on all of us and the way, sometimes inattentive, in which we are all subjects, products and producers, of the great History.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Music: Vida Leda dúo
Coach in theatre of objects: Hernesto Mussano
Analysis and research: Josette Halegoi and Marcela De Grande
Grafic design: Pablo Archetti and Maitén López Braun
Printing: Artes & Oficios
Video: Julián Enríquez
Dramaturgy and interpretation: Marcela De Grande
Direction: Germán Rodríaguez
Duration of the performance: 45 minutes
Audience: all audiences aged 12 and over
Fee: 15€
Limited places by pre-booking:
info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504
“Unipersonal con canto de cigarras” was selected by the Instituto Nacional del Teatro (Argentina) for its production. Within this framework, it will be staging 12 performances in the Buenos Aires region in the coming months.
The performance was premiered in Brasilia on 24 April 2024, invited to the VII International Colloquium of Clinical Sociology and Psychosociology ‘Democracy under threat: Crises, fractures and resistance’ at the University of Brasilia (UnB).
It also was presented in the same city on 26 April 2024 at the Casa dos Quatro theatre.
Before the premiere, a series of public performances were held in cultural spaces in Buenos Aires (Macacha, CC El Colectivo, among others).
Marcela De Grande has a degree in Literature from the University of Paris III and completed her training in theatre and human and social sciences in Paris and Buenos Aires. She is a dramaturge and actress, as well as a translator and facilitator in clinical sociology…
She is co-founder and member of the cultural centre El Colectivo (Buenos Aires) since 2000 and coordinator of its theatre production workshop. She has written and directed the plays Cáspita, Soponcio!, A la sombra del paraíso and El canto de las cigarras, and has participated in numerous plays, among them Soñar no cuesta nada, with Claudio Hochman, performances of Microteatro Bs As, Beethoven de la cia Babelteatro….
Photos: Alba Montañez