MUJERES AL FRENTE: OFRENDAS TEATRALES PARA REPENSAR LA GUERRA DE MALVINAS

Abstract

The Malvinas War (2 April – 14 June 1982) is, to this day, an open wound. Although more than forty years have passed since its event, numerous consequences still need to be examined in depth. Voices, images, symbolic appropriations, among other heterogeneous elements, are part of a complex network that continues to this day, imposing challenges that can be confronted from the perspective of the arts. A unique case that Malvinology has recently experienced is that of women in war, who have gained considerable visibility in the last decade. While in the field of theater there has been a strong interest in the role of women during battle for years (Dubatti, 2022), in recent years it has grown and offered valuable poetics. This article analyzes the case of one of these poetics, Mujeres al frente. Historias de Malvinas (2021), de Gabriela Aguad. It is a show that draws on the materiality of these voices to articulate a poetics that starts from the narrative and expands it through theatrical resources to attack silences and omissions and articulate new readings of the past and present, of women and war.