The company Antares Teatro tells the story of the peasant woman Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza, also known as Mama Angélica, who became an important social activist from Peru after her son disappeared. In the middle of the night on July 2nd, 1983, army and police forces raided her home, assaulted and threatened her family, and forcibly took her son Arquímedes. Angélica then went on a long search for the young man, but she never heard from him again. Her efforts turned her into a prominent figure fighting for human rights during the times of political violence and armed conflict that marked the country in the 1980s and 1990s. In this production, the story is told through the voice of the main character, as a first-person account. 

Antares Teatro is a group established in 2004 in the peruvian city of Ayacucho, with the goal of raising awareness of cultural values and sparking reflections. Pursuing its own aesthetics, the group’s priority is to translate realities into sensorial works of universal language. Its works include the shows Revolución [Revolution], Vladimir, La Bruja Achique [The Achique Witch], and El Monte Calvo. 

CAST AND CREW  
Cast: Flor Marcelina León Gonzales, Ariana Fernanda Aquino Sarmiento e Diegoalonso Dauderley Tito Baez  
Direction: Edgar Palomino Medina 
Sound and set assistant: César Piero Castro Enciso 
Photographs, props, and lighting assistant: Heydy Yajaira Ramírez Condolí 
Production in Brazil: Paula Rocha 

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