Reas

After a humiliating and violent body search, Yoseli is taken to a cell, where she meets Cantero. Cantero explains to her the rules of the fictional prison in which they find themselves; a place in which solidarity and sharing between inmates reign supreme. In this disused prison in the heart of Buenos Aires, the stories of the incarceration of several cis women and trans people are re-enacted. During their imprisonment, they experienced pain and violence, but they also built friendships and romantic relationships. By playing their own roles on screen, then those of others – inmates and guards – the protagonists retell each other's stories in a series of dazzling pop tableaux, bestowing on them a power mixed with fragility. Punctuated by song and dance performances, this documentary-musical comedy is a vibrant expression of a group's determination to articulate and heal from traumatic experiences through words and music.
Alice Fuchs

Reas, 2024
Theatre of War, 2018