A DOOR OPEN TO THE SEA

Play. Argentina, early 1990s. Sandra and Dunia, childhood friends who were detained and disappeared by the dictatorship in a concentration camp for being pacifists, reunite after Sandra's years in exile.
The emotional reunion gives way to the shocking realization of how the dictatorship managed to separate them and create two communities: one for those who stayed and one for those condemned to exile.
Suddenly, an abyss opens before their eyes, leaving them on opposite shores.
Can they build a bridge to unite them?

Dr. Susana D. Castillo, University of San Diego, United States: "......the play explores the uprooting of its two characters on different levels. On one level, the play deals with the anxious reunion of two women separated for ten years...

Aptly, the initial encounter is choreographed as a slow dance in which the two women try to find each other-as if in a mist-while simultaneously suppressing the outward expression of their conflicting emotions... Thus, they will move-with caution and restraint-from reminiscence to laughter, from song to nostalgia, from distance...to the tango!...

(...) It is worth adding that Viviana Marcela Iriart-novelist and journalist-sought refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy at the age of 21, a period that marked the beginning of her exile, which would take her to various parts of the world before she settled in Venezuela..." Latin American Theatre Review, Kansas University, 2008 leer todo...