Teatro del Barrio (20 Zurita Street) will once again host, today Monday and next May 18 at 7:30 PM, the play The Trees Don’t Vote, written and directed by José Ignacio Tofé, which, through humor and satire, dissects political hypocrisy in the face of the climate crisis.
The plot places the viewer at the epicenter of power: the office of the president of an autonomous community. In light of the urgency of the upcoming elections, her team bets on a miraculous project: a decarbonization plant capable of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and solving the greenhouse effect. However, shortly before the elections, they discover that the factory will never deliver the expected results.
To acknowledge the failure or to lie and distort the truth until that mistake becomes a success? The play poses a crossroads that, although it seems fictional, resonates strongly with current politics.
The play uses humor to highlight the impossibility of a serious and adult debate in current politics. We are immersed in a world where truth is a battlefield and denying reality has become a valid strategy to win elections.
Director Tofé points out that “we live immersed in such absurd politics that we only need to distance ourselves a little from reality to enter the realm of satire.” Laughing may be the first step to becoming aware and understanding that “the solutions we need will not come from power.”
Parliaments are “bad and expensive theaters” where the fantasy of “democratic debate” is represented. In reality, important decisions and crucial agreements for our lives never occur in the public eye. Our future is decided in offices whose locations we do not know, by people whose identities we do not know, and for reasons very different from those they will tell us.
This entire play unfolds in one of those offices. The place where the lies we are sold every day are created, the place where we will be convinced that everything executed from power is done for our own good.
The audience will be able to see from the seats how politics really works and who truly pulls the strings. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
