Lleca Teatro is a theatre group from Nicaragua that is composed of, and makes theatre with, people from communities trapped in cycles of violence. For this reason, violence in its multiple forms as well as its undoing and contestation are the main issues that inform their work. Over the years of Lleca Teatro have worked with the subject of imprisonment in Nicaragua, where they developed a distinctly corporeal theatre methodology, drawing on both the collective and individual body as a creative source of imag(inari)es, text(ure)s and sensory experiences.
Following their exile from Nicaragua amid the pandemic restrictions in the Netherlands, they began rebuilding and internationalizing their community arts collective with other Nicaraguan refugees and solidarity artists, as such they created Farewell Macondo, building on this modality of largely non-verbal storytelling. During this accompanying workshop, participants will learn about Lleca Teatro’s creative methods whilst deploying their own body and biography to construct images and engage sensory experiences. All to bring the unspeakable to the stage