Theatre
From January 21st to 23rd, Estación Central
Performed by: Álvaro Armand Ugón, Sofía Lara, Mané Pérez | Directed by: Marianella Morena| Written by: Marianella Morena | Produced by: Lucía Etcheverry | Journalistic producer: Antonio Ladra | Original score and sound design: Maia Castro | Assistant director: Thamara Martínez| Lighting designer: Ivana Domínguez | Set design and creation: Ivana Domínguez and Mariana Pereira| Wardrobe: Ana Paula Segundo| Staging assistant and water system: Juan Andrés Piazza | Graphic designer: Nicolás Batista| Publicity shots: Lu Silva Musso and Cecilia Moreira
Marianella Morena
Director
Looking into myths and the construction of identity
This Uruguayan actress, playwright and director (1968) has trained in several different countries, such as Argentina, France and Poland and has spent a large part of her career writing plays and teaching. She has won the Molière Award from the French Embassy in Uruguay and a grant from the Goethe Institute for further studies in Berlin. She has written different dramatic texts, including Las julietas (2009), Antígona Oriental (2012) and No daré hijos, daré versos (2014).
Teatro La Morena
The company
Dialogue between fact and fiction
Created in 2009, Teatro la Morena has put on productions in formats ranging from monologues to camera to shows with 120 artists on stage. With work that they define as a dialogue between fact and fiction, this company captures its commitment to gender in the issues dealt with by its productions and performances, making them one of Uruguayan theater’s best international exports.
“This is the latest piece by playwright Marianella Morena, based on Operation Ocean and what happened in court, what was published in the media during the controversy, what eventually ended up happening and what, after its premiere, ended up receiving a standing ovation”
–El Observador, Uruguay
“With its cutting and investigative perspective, Muñecas de piel is much more than a play based on Operation Ocean”.
“A theater that includes a critique that makes us feel uncomfortable”.
“The audience is completely and successfully overwhelmed by the uncompassionate cast. Every emotion is bubbling right under the surface, except for the fact that you, dear spectator, are made of something lifeless”.
–The way it is directed and written constructs and captures a type of ever-present and systematic violence, taking the audience deep into Operation Ocean and one of the most controversial trials to take place in Uruguay in the last few years. “Morena directs this piece masterfully; she knows about excess, she knows how to play with exacerbation”, indicates Semanario Búsqueda in Uruguay.
–Its strange and complex staging does not go unnoticed. Constructing the environment takes a leading role and becomes part of the cast itself as far as its physical and symbolic structure is concerned. “Other masterful resources stand out, such as the water that takes over the stage and the characters as a metaphor for sinking”, said critic Carmen Galusso about the play on the radio program La mañana en camino (FM 98.7) in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Operation Ocean: This is the name given to the case that led to the largest trial for crimes of a sexual nature in Uruguay. The investigation, which began in 2019, ended up charging 33 men with pimping, trafficking drugs and sexual exploitation of minors. Among those accused were a former judge of minors, lawyers, architects, teachers, a headmaster, businessmen, councilors, a substitute congressman and public relations officers.
Find out more about Operation Ocean and its repercussions in the following links:
On Instagram, @la_morena_teatro
On Facebook, facebook.com/teatrolamorena
Website, la-morena5.webnode.com.uy
COLABORA
Muñecas de piel
Written and directed by Marianella Morena |A Teatro La Morena production
- Uruguay
- Spanish
- 70 minutes
- + 16
The story of Uruguay’s largest network sexually exploiting minors is brought to the stage in a play that is both raw and sensitive.
On March 20, 2020, the body of a 17 year old girl appeared in the Solís River in Montevideo. A search of her mobile phone showed conversations of an erotic nature between her, other minors and adults. These findings became one of the most important discoveries of Operation Ocean, which ended with the fall of Uruguay’s largest network sexually exploiting minors. The controversy, which infiltrated the upper echelons of power in Uruguayan society, became a media sensation, marking a before and after in the way sexual crimes were dealt with in this Latin American country.
Premiered in July 2021, Muñecas de piel brings to the stage a piece based on this story. This play stands out both because of its raw and sensitive subject matter as well as its staging, with two tubs fuelling what happens on stage with 2,000 liters of water. The actors get wet and are covered in mud; no one escapes ‘untouched’ and the silence is perpetual.
Muñecas de piel
Written and directed by Marianella Morena |A Teatro La Morena production
- Uruguay
- Spanish
- 70 minutes
- + 16
The story of Uruguay’s largest network sexually exploiting minors is brought to the stage in a play that is both raw and sensitive.
On March 20, 2020, the body of a 17 year old girl appeared in the Solís River in Montevideo. A search of her mobile phone showed conversations of an erotic nature between her, other minors and adults. These findings became one of the most important discoveries of Operation Ocean, which ended with the fall of Uruguay’s largest network sexually exploiting minors. The controversy, which infiltrated the upper echelons of power in Uruguayan society, became a media sensation, marking a before and after in the way sexual crimes were dealt with in this Latin American country.
Premiered in July 2021, Muñecas de piel brings to the stage a piece based on this story. This play stands out both because of its raw and sensitive subject matter as well as its staging, with two tubs fuelling what happens on stage with 2,000 liters of water. The actors get wet and are covered in mud; no one escapes ‘untouched’ and the silence is perpetual.
Performed by: Álvaro Armand Ugón, Sofía Lara, Mané Pérez | Directed by: Marianella Morena| Written by: Marianella Morena | Produced by: Lucía Etcheverry | Journalistic producer: Antonio Ladra | Original score and sound design: Maia Castro | Assistant director: Thamara Martínez| Lighting designer: Ivana Domínguez | Set design and creation: Ivana Domínguez and Mariana Pereira| Wardrobe: Ana Paula Segundo| Staging assistant and water system: Juan Andrés Piazza | Graphic designer: Nicolás Batista| Publicity shots: Lu Silva Musso and Cecilia Moreira
Marianella Morena
Director
Looking into myths and the construction of identity
This Uruguayan actress, playwright and director (1968) has trained in several different countries, such as Argentina, France and Poland and has spent a large part of her career writing plays and teaching. She has won the Molière Award from the French Embassy in Uruguay and a grant from the Goethe Institute for further studies in Berlin. She has written different dramatic texts, including Las julietas (2009), Antígona Oriental (2012) and No daré hijos, daré versos (2014).
Teatro La Morena
The company
Dialogue between fact and fiction
Created in 2009, Teatro la Morena has put on productions in formats ranging from monologues to camera to shows with 120 artists on stage. With work that they define as a dialogue between fact and fiction, this company captures its commitment to gender in the issues dealt with by its productions and performances, making them one of Uruguayan theater’s best international exports.
“This is the latest piece by playwright Marianella Morena, based on Operation Ocean and what happened in court, what was published in the media during the controversy, what eventually ended up happening and what, after its premiere, ended up receiving a standing ovation”
–El Observador, Uruguay
“With its cutting and investigative perspective, Muñecas de piel is much more than a play based on Operation Ocean”.
“A theater that includes a critique that makes us feel uncomfortable”.
“The audience is completely and successfully overwhelmed by the uncompassionate cast. Every emotion is bubbling right under the surface, except for the fact that you, dear spectator, are made of something lifeless”.
–The way it is directed and written constructs and captures a type of ever-present and systematic violence, taking the audience deep into Operation Ocean and one of the most controversial trials to take place in Uruguay in the last few years. “Morena directs this piece masterfully; she knows about excess, she knows how to play with exacerbation”, indicates Semanario Búsqueda in Uruguay.
–Its strange and complex staging does not go unnoticed. Constructing the environment takes a leading role and becomes part of the cast itself as far as its physical and symbolic structure is concerned. “Other masterful resources stand out, such as the water that takes over the stage and the characters as a metaphor for sinking”, said critic Carmen Galusso about the play on the radio program La mañana en camino (FM 98.7) in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Operation Ocean: This is the name given to the case that led to the largest trial for crimes of a sexual nature in Uruguay. The investigation, which began in 2019, ended up charging 33 men with pimping, trafficking drugs and sexual exploitation of minors. Among those accused were a former judge of minors, lawyers, architects, teachers, a headmaster, businessmen, councilors, a substitute congressman and public relations officers.
Find out more about Operation Ocean and its repercussions in the following links:
On Instagram, @la_morena_teatro
On Facebook, facebook.com/teatrolamorena
Website, la-morena5.webnode.com.uy
COLABORA