ARCHIVES 2015 / Cuando vuelva a casa voy a ser otro

Forty years after burying a bag in a garden, Alfredo finds it again and watches as reappear the objects that belonged to the young revolutionary he once was. In this uprising of memory, his son, Manuel, helps him identify the author of an old song and wonders about the talented young director he himself once was. Hearing the voice of her murdered father, Natalia, a singer waiting for her big break, finds a way to self-realisation. Damian, a left-wing politician in need of money, appropriates an old show of Manuel's to win his wife back; but this deception does not pay...Mariano Pensotti tells the stories of those four characters and exposes their core identities, their personal myths, and their family stories, on a stage that doubles as a museum. When those ideal figures, born of dreams or buried, reappear, the characters are forced to face doubles; the people they once hoped to be, or they once were.The gap between reality and the image each set as his or her goal or model is clear. When I come back home I'll be a different person questions the legends that are forced on us, or that we force on our loved ones. The possibility to be someone else is always at once forbidden and wished for.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Mariano Pensotti is a playwright and a director for cinema and the theatre. He studied cinema, visual arts, and theatre in Argentina, Spain, and Italy. In 2005, as his country is going through an important economic and political crisis, Mariano Pensotti founds the Grupo Marea, informally bringing together artists preoccupied by the same questions but working in various fields and with very different backgrounds: scenographer Mariana Tirantte, musicien Diego Vainer, and electrician Alejandro Le Roux. Born of the desire to work together within a hostile context, the Grupo Marea creates dramatic shows, but also artistic interventions in public spaces. Mariano Pensotti likes to tell great stories by combining different modes of expression on the stage and to put the complex borders between reality and fiction to the test. He even uses in his texts elements from his own life, or from the lives of his collaborators. Mariano Pensotti has notably created La Marea, Enciclopedia de vidas no vividas, A veces creo que te veo, El Pasado es un animal grotesco, or Cineastas, which played and received many awards in South American and throughout the world.