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Dates
Oct 23, 2026 — Oct 25, 2026
Place
Sungkyunkwan University Business School Small Theater, 25-2 Sungkyunkwan-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Located in the Humanities and Social Sciences Campus, within the Business School building.
Admission at the time
Free admission for all seats
Facts last checked
2026-10-17
First preserved here
2026-10-19

Published programme

In a small rural Chilean town in the 1970s, women gather at a riverside washing place, unsure whether husbands and children disappeared under military dictatorship are alive or dead. At the deepest place of honor stands Sofía, upright as rock after losing husband and children. Insisting that even their dead bodies must be recovered and buried by their own hands, she declares a dignity unwilling to compromise with the military. Despite terror of repression and resentment of Sofía for endangering them, hope for their husbands and resistance draw them beneath her great shield. Under a newly appointed captain's conciliatory policy, the women waver. Sofía's daughter-in-law Yanina, holding a baby not yet able to babble, becomes isolated at the stage's edge, while Alexandra tries to calm the fearful women. Sofía raises a white handkerchief and begins a firm ritual cueca; drawn as if entranced, they form a great dance circle. The captain tries to persuade Sofía and Alexandra, but Sofía refuses and is taken to a camp. When Alexandra's husband Anton is also sentenced to death, she is left in extreme despair. Finally she wraps Sofía's black shawl around her shoulders. Entering a tower of chairs symbolizing piled-up oppression and absence, she raises Sofía's handkerchief and dances a desperate cueca to rouse the women again. She helps endangered Fidelia escape and awakens as a new leader carrying Sofía's spirit…

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