What does it mean to be sixteen when the horizon seems to narrow?? Collapse, the stage piece directed by Juan Ayala and Miguel Oyarzun, It's not just theater; It is an urgent assembly, a generational portrait that closes the Youth Trilogy after having explored our relationship with technology (SELFIE) and the economy (CAPITAL).
In this final installment, the stage becomes the epicenter of an unavoidable conversation: the ecosocial crisis and the limits of a growth that ignores the finitude of the planet.
While adolescence is often associated with excess, Collapse gives us an uncomfortable question: in a system addicted to the consumption of dead capital, Who are the ones who really exceed? Inspired by the warnings in the historic report of 1972, The Limits to Donella Meadows' Growth, The work confronts the blindness of a progress that today, more than fifty years later, continues mortgaging the future.
Faced with the possibility of the end of the world, this piece of community theater and collective creation, with ESAD students, wonders what role youth plays in the board of survival. The work acts as a mirror of our own addiction to the system. Quoting Paul B. Valued, we face the harsh reality of a society that derives pleasure from the consumption of its own destruction. Collapse breaks that inertia by proposing a creativity of resistance. A vibrant piece, raw and necessary that involves us all in the task of re-imagining how to inhabit a world that becomes, day after day, more uninhabitable.
