El Rincón de los Muertos (The Corner of the Dead) | ARCUB International Theatre Season 2026

The documentary and autobiographical theatre production "El Rincón de los Muertos (The Corner of the Dead)", from Peru, will be performed on 14 and 15 November 2026 at 19:00 at ARCUB, Sala Mare (Str. Lipscani 84–90, Bucharest). It is part of the ARCUB International Theatre Season 2026. It is directed by Sebastián Rubio and Yanira Dávila, and at its centre is the actor Ricardo Bromley, a practitioner of the traditional dance danzante de tijeras (the Scissors Dance).

He explores his own life story to tell the history of the Ayacucho region, marked by conflict and violence, from the struggle for independence and the Huanta massacre to the internal armed conflict and the violence of December 2022. The form is that of a performative reading, with testimony, song and traditional dance.

The project was developed in the FAE Incuba programme in Peru and first presented at the MIRADA Festival in São Paulo in 2024. It then travelled to Ayacucho, for a performance for the families of the victims of political violence. In 2026 it was presented at Santiago a Mil (Chile), FAE Lima (Peru) and Fiesta Escénica (Ecuador).

Author: Sebastián Rubio. Set and lighting design: Mariano Márquez. Sound design: Pauchi Sasaki. Video design: Sofía Velázquez. The running time is 80 minutes, without an interval. The performance is in Spanish, with surtitles in Romanian and English, recommended for ages 14+. Tickets are available at arcub.ro, iabilet.ro and from the ARCUB box office.

The season is organised by the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB, in partnership with the "Camil Petrescu" Cultural Foundation, and curated by Oana Borș and Ioana Anghel, on the theme "Crisis/Crises".