Information For Foreigners

It is a promenade style site-specific theatre piece in which the audience is led on a tour through a large house by a guide.

[1] Gambaro uses the play to discuss the lives of the desaparecidos, and to simultaneously explore the nature of theatrical forms, and the expectations of an audience.

For example, in scene three the group visits a room in which a girl in wet clothes is sitting in a chair, and man yells at her and gives her a gun.

The guides ask the audience to stand against the wall, leaving space in the center, which is where the remainder of the show takes place.

[1] The play introduces the audience to two levels of performance where they are shown both finished scenes, as well as what appear to be private and unfinished moments.