El rincón de los muertos

Ayacucho derives from the Quechua words aya, death, and kuchu, corner. "Ayacucho" means "the corner of the dead," and the territory seems marked by its name.Throughout the piece, Ricardo, an actor and scissor dancer from Ayacucho, investigates his personal history and how it has been crossed by the cycles of violence that have shaken the region: the founding myth, the battle of independence, the massacre over free education, the internal armed conflict and the latest massacre against its citizens in December 2022. Every so often, it seems a quota of deaths must be fulfilled, one that gives meaning to the name.Alone on stage with two tables, a bench, a violin, a gas lamp and a set of everyday objects, Ricardo moves between testimony, archive and live performance. Projected documents and images bring the historical record into the room, while his body, his music and the scissor dance carry the memory that documents cannot hold.Ricardo comes from a family in which there are both victims and perpetrators. What can an actor with that history say? Is it possible to break the cycles of violence that seem to condemn an entire population?