Malayerba performs Instrucciones para abrazar el aire (How to Hug the Air)

Reknowned Ecuadorian theater company presents Instrucciones para abrazar el aire for one night only at the Pregones Theater. Instrucciones is play based on the tragic events of 1976 Argentina within a house located in the city of la Plata. A group of young militants from the Montoneros Organization are murdered, and a girl named Anahí Mariani kidnapped. The repressors are eager to kill, torture, imprison… Narrated as fiction in which characters traverse heterogenous times and roads. Nonetheless, they end up meeting in a common place named tragedy.

Teatro Malayerba was founded in Quito in 1979 by Arístides Vargas, Susana Pautasso and María del Rosario 'Charo' Francés, immigrant actors originally from Argentina and Spain. From the start, Malayerba included actors with various backgrounds and nationalities, invested in the exploration of the rich cultural diversity and complex history of Ecuador, as well as issues of migration, exile, political violence and individual and collective memory.

Instrucciones para abrazar el aire will take place at
Pregones Theater
575 Walton Avenue
Bronx, NY 10451