Antología de Macondo
Antología de Macondo (Anthology of Macondo) was a three-part exploration of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel. Developed collaboratively with international circus and theatre artists. This production was created by MA Collaborative Performance Making students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in collaboration with mixed-discipline circus artists.
I directed and devised the first part of the production, which centers on the character of Rebecca as a metaphor for colonialism’s destructive legacy in Colombia. Stripped of identity and history, her compulsive act of eating dirt symbolises the erasure and degradation inflicted by colonisation—a world where people rise from the earth, are treated like dirt, and ultimately return to it. Rebecca becomes a vessel for colonial violence, carrying with her a plague of insomnia that infects both the Buendía family and the European colonisers.
Role(s): Director, Deviser,
Performers: José Manuel Álvarez Serqueira, Mikael Kristiansen, Sasha Niamh, Lola
Year: 2025
Produced by: Centre de Création, France
