REAS

With Reas, Argentinian Lola Arias creates a musical universe full of dancing and singing in a prison, in which cis and trans women unite in a choreography of solidarity. It is about not losing hope in Argentina's extremely unequal society. As a result, Reas takes on a dreamlike dimension that gets under your skin.

 

 

Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel to Europe, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a transman who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail. Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long-term inmates or newly admitted: in this hybrid musical, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison. REAS is a collective work that reinvents the musical genre: the performers dance and sing about their past in prison, relive their life as fiction, and invent, through fantasy and imagination, a possible future for themselves.

 

 

Interview with Lola Arias (ARTE TV): 
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/118149-006-A/reas-interview-mit-lola-arias/​