Synopsis​

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“Where There Was Fire” is a contemporary play based on fragments of stories from the book “Fires” by feminist Belgian writer

Marguerite Yourcenar.

The play is a tribute to the author and, in a way, the director’s interpretation of a particular moment in her life. Tabula RaSa explores a sentiment, contextualized in various themes, such as love, war, and migration, among others, from their own

creative and aesthetic perspective.

The topic of women and gender is expressed during the play through the voices of the author, the actresses who

represent four different moments in the life of this woman, and through the main character: Clytemnestra, a woman who

has symbolized passion in diverse ways through history.

The director develops timeless and universal themes seeking deep substrates -while contrasting with common archetypes- that he feels many women and men will identify with.

The visibility of women from a theatrical perspective is of great importance to this company.

Understanding that migration is as old as human history, we also recognize that the role of women has changed along with

the circumstances and conditions of such journeys.

These subjects are addressed through dance, visual art, poetry, and music; a woman goes through various stages in which changes occur according to different experiences, such as love, sexuality, marriage, fidelity, desire, happiness, war.

With this work, we want to inspire in our audience levels of reflection, in contrast to a bare illustration of the topics discussed.

We sustain the idea of visibility of women from an aesthetic standpoint and through poetry, for as Marguerite Yourcenar recalls

in her book Fires, “Not to be loved anymore is to become invisible.”