Autofiction by Tirso Causillas, directed by Nani Pease, is presented at the House of Remembering

After a successful touring season in 2023, the play “Mudarse de sí (chick with potatoes)” is located for a brief season at Yuyachkani’s house in Magdalena.

“Mudarse de si (chick with potatoes)” by Tirso Causillas is directed by Nani Pease and produced by /Otro/teatro collective, it is an autofiction about domestic violence, symbolic migration and the labyrinth of family love.

The work tells the story of the last days of a family crossed by absence, aggression, alcohol and shouting on Skype. It tells the story of Tirsito (Tirso of the past) who, accompanied by Tirso (the one of the present), will take us through the tensions, desires, intensities and difficulties of growing up in his family, and at the same time the struggles and challenges of being actor in a city that makes it as difficult as Lima.

About the work

Tirsito – a young man who studies acting at the Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático de Lima – wants to move. Leaving the parental home. Be a successful actor that everyone recognizes on the street. He wants to stop feeling fear, guilt, anger. He wants to start over. But he doesn’t dare. Leaving his family is very difficult. Job insecurity and migration have left them with 27 soles until who knows when. They no longer have to pay for the room where they live. The landlord breaks down their door every day demanding rent. Tirsito writes letters to his future self, Tirso, to gain courage. He tells her about Sofía, the girl who doesn’t give him any attention. How she would like to be her. And by taking us through that world, he shares with us, intimately, almost like one of those stories told with fear and guilt in the ear, the violence he has suffered, the crossing of limits, the anguish that makes him know, that it hurts like that, it is the time to go

This emotional journey through the life of an artist gives us metaphors about memory, violence and the possibility of creating new paths without denying the past.

All of this will be narrated through laughter and anger, through live music, singing that which cannot be said, and through eating a lot (and on stage) grilled chicken, with which Tirsito’s family celebrates everything. the good that happens.

The work has been the winner of the Annual Creation Project Contest of the Vice-Rectorate of Research of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 2022, and also of the stimuli of the Ministry of Culture in 2023. Tirso Causillas has also received the Critics’ Award from the Office Critic for best performance in a comedy work in 2023.

Words from author/actor Tirso Causillas