Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

In this theatre production by internationally acclaimed Chilean director Marco Layera, young people speak up against being perpetually taught a masculinity that discourages vulnerability and tenderness and punishes them for it. Empathy is construed as weakness. As one of the actors says: “The worst thing my hands have done is kill the child in me so that I can become a man.”

These young Chilean men between the ages of 14 and 18 are no longer prepared to accept this. So they ask themselves: How can we change if we don’t have any positive male role models? What stops us from showing affection or asking for tenderness? How do we turn tenderness into a political practice? In a powerful and poetic evening, Layera and the theatre collective La Re-Sentida search for the revolutionary power of tenderness. Powerful theatre for all those who are not satisfied with rigid role models and gender clichés.