Voces de Malvinas: territorial sovereignty through female voices in Lucía Laragione's theatrical narrative (2022)

Abstract

The theater play Voces de Malvinas (2022) written by Lucía Laragione and produced by the theater company “Las Republiquetas” recovers the voices of those who lived in the islands from the XVIII century to the present days. It is a musical theater play that, through the montage of voices on stage, narrates the history of Malvinas through mainly female voices. The writing and production of the play were promoted by two calls for proposals carried out in 2021 and 2022 by two institutions –the Teatro Nacional Cervantes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro– under the then Ministry of Culture of the Nation. The following article analyses Voces de Malvinas from a gender perspective and taking into account the political and memorial context of the writing of the play as well as the context in which spectators saw it. The context of expectation is characterized by the re-emergence of negationist discourses about the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in which the Malvinas War (1982) took place. The article argues that the aesthetic-political gesture of the work consists in questioning women and highlighting their exclusion from the history of Malvinas, in all its meanings: the cause, the islands and the war.