About The Event
Raped, tortured during Pinochet’s regime in Chile, Paulina Salas now lives quietly with her husband Gerardo Escobar at their beach-villa north of Santiago, isolated from the world, from people. And it must have been her choice because she naturally still reeling from the wounds inflicted on her a few years ago. Paulina suffers from the post-traumatic disorder, a condition her husband is finding more and more difficult to cope with. Escobar has in the 15-year interim become the head of a Commission created to bring to light atrocities committed during the said regime. He is fast becoming the hope for a whole nation’s suffering and for his wife. But for now, brushed under the carpet are the doubts, the fears and that often too misquoted idea of a man’s place, role in society today
As the play opens a stranger visits them. His name is Roberto Miranda and he is there, a presence in their home. After having helped Escobar fix his car hours earlier, Miranda returns at a ghostly hour. Paulina recognizes his voice: her torturer, her rapist from 15 years ago. Paulina having lost faith in her husband to provide the justice she deems to be her natural birthright, she proceeds to torture Miranda. She requires a confession. But like any other acts of contrition will she be the given the satisfaction she thinks she so richly deserves by putting this man on trial in her own home?
Lights: Deepa Dharmadhikari
Set: Anchal Nath
Sound: Kabir Singh
