Blueberries, of Moses Kaufman y Amanda Gronich, finalist text Pulitzer Prize for Theater 2024, comes to Bouquet in a version directed and adapted by Sergio Peris-Mencheta, one of the great names of contemporary theater. The work is based on a real discovery: an album of unpublished photographs from World War II showing the daily lives of the officers who administered Auschwitz. picnic images, songs and smiles… meters from the largest Nazi extermination camp in history. Through those photos, The work delves into an uncomfortable question and today even more urgent than ever.: How is it possible to live with horror and continue calling it normality??
Peris-Mencheta —Max Prize, Ceres Award and reference director with titles such as 'Ladies Football Club' or 'Una noche sin Luna', so acclaimed by the public in Bouquet— returns to direct with a rigorous staging, emotional and deeply contemporary. Your adaptation, made at a very important moment in life, brings us a look that connects the past with our present, inviting us to review our individual and collective responsibility in the face of violence, memory and historical heritage.
Synopsis:
Album of never-before-seen World War II photos sent to Rebecca Erbelding, the director of archives at the United States Holocaust Museum. Photos show officers administering Auschwitz, the deadliest concentration camp in human history. As Rebecca dives into these images, a surprising story comes to light: how we live a daily life next to an extermination camp? Pronto, The images begin to appear on the front pages of newspapers around the world.
In Germany, A businessman sees the photos on the internet and recognizes his grandfather in one of them. This leads him on a journey of discovery that will lead him to meet other descendants of Nazis and have to confront his family's past..
