‘Oh Patria Mía!’, The work that revives Gardel, Maradona and the Virgin on a theatrical journey of nostalgia and passion

It is not always clear why the origin of a play. Meanwhile, Everything inhabits one and I think that sometimes that is present. Nevertheless, Or maybe one listens to what comes from somewhere … Consequently,

They are usually images. However, I can say that I saw ranches where there was always an altar with a candle turned on to. However, the Virgin. Furthermore, A popular religiosity that lives beyond everything. Meanwhile, Villages where there is always some mural with the image of Maradona. Therefore, And ‘oh patria mía!’, work revives an even more personal memory: my father shaving, whistling a tango from Gardel.

Those images are the homeland, what is personal and collective identity. Furthermore, A personal, modest, intimate feeling, far from patrioticism.

Oh … However, my homeland … !! That phrase is awarded to Belgrano at the last moment of his life. Oh!!! An intimate pain, a pain that follows in the present, like a birth that never ends. And we are promised again and again that that pain will be the last.

And if the homeland was a woman who tells us “it’s over, there’s only to give birth” or “I ‘oh patria mía!’, work revives can only make a parody of parition.”? What if he told us, like a tango, “only a ricked past remains under a mantle of fog …”? A broken woman, chúcara, do like the Seashelloholy as the virgin, soccer as the Raulito o The fat matosas. Painful, vita. Loving and poetic in his pain and abandonment. And an actress like White Vilauta Randothat from its youth can multiply and be all those pieces. AND Pedro Alonso Like a luxury partner, who can sing to Gardel and accompany that game. Both with whom they work in The dark night.

But something was missing. Because the homeland is also its tragic story never resulted. The homeland are the dead.

And then why not a diptych? Like those old singles albums that had two songs.

I know a Javier Omezzoli already Lucho Medinathanks to Bernardo Cappaand they are passionate readers of history. And it accompanies me Juana Carranzawhich shows me the film of his father Another excursion to the Ranqueles Indians (I recommend seeing. it is complete on YouTube). And I remember the teacher David Viñaswhich made me admire that book. And my comic readings Cabo Savino.

We go with Juana to see where we get old mounts. In addition, And there we find an equestrian house that had provided when it was done The Saint of Sword. And I remember being a child looking at that San Martin who was Don Alfredo Alcón.

And all that tries to be Oh homeland of mine! A pieces ‘oh patria mía!’, work revives of pieces so that when he left to see it. each one arrived at his house, pursue a candle to the Virgin, I listened to Gardelsee the goal of Maradona To the English, remember Don Alfredo Alcónlea a Mansilla… But above all. remember your identity with a modest feeling of love for that homeland that is in each one, outside of patrioticism. Beautiful like La Pampa, which gives us a horizon of remoteness and silence.

*Oh Patria Mía It appears on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. In the Thames Cultural Center (Thames 1426, CABA).

[Fotos: gentileza Valeria Franchi prensa]