Ciertas astillas/Certain Shards

by Paz Pardo

My father left Argentina in the 1970’s, a decade of coups and the beginning of the dictatorship. By the time I could speak enough Spanish to talk to my grandmother, her memories were moth-eaten by Alzheimer’s. I moved back to Argentina forty years after my father’s arrival in the US. What did my family miss in those four decades? What did my grandmother remember, before she forgot? A fragmented fable of identity...

My father left Argentina in the 1970’s, a decade of coups and the beginning of the dictatorship. By the time I could speak enough Spanish to talk to my grandmother, her memories were moth-eaten by Alzheimer’s. I moved back to Argentina forty years after my father’s arrival in the US. What did my family miss in those four decades? What did my grandmother remember, before she forgot? A fragmented fable of identity, memory, and migration.

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  • Nick Malakhow: Ciertas astillas/Certain Shards by Paz Pardo
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    A beautiful piece that has the vulnerability and lyricism of a solo show with the bold, brazen theatricality of a piece meant to be fully inhabited by multiple virtuosic actors. This potent piece defies genres and treads much comedic ground even as it illuminates wrenching truths about family and memory, and as it explores liminality, identity, place/home, inheritance, and the weight of family legacy. If you have time, you should see Two River's beautiful digital reading of this--I'd be thrilled to see it realized onstage!

    A beautiful piece that has the vulnerability and lyricism of a solo show with the bold, brazen theatricality of a piece meant to be fully inhabited by multiple virtuosic actors. This potent piece defies genres and treads much comedic ground even as it illuminates wrenching truths about family and memory, and as it explores liminality, identity, place/home, inheritance, and the weight of family legacy. If you have time, you should see Two River's beautiful digital reading of this--I'd be thrilled to see it realized onstage!

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