A scene from the production “Los días afuera / The days out there” by Lola Arias: A person with long brown hair and tattooed arms sits on all fours on top of a red car. The person looks into the camera. In the car, a person with short dark hair at the wheel, is looking up.
A scene from the production “Los días afuera / The days out there” by Lola Arias: six people in a car parked in front of a green screen. They all look into the camera.
A scene from the production “Los días afuera / The days out there” by Lola Arias: In the left half of the picture, a person with sunglasses can be seen laying in a deck chair on the stage. The person is holding a fan. In the background on the right, a person with an electric guitar is standing.

Los días afuera / The days out there

Lola Arias

Buenos Aires / Berlin

Nacho becomes a taxi driver, Paula starts working at an illegal clothing factory, Noelia resumes doing sex work and advocates for the rights of trans people: after a group of cis women and trans individuals have done their time in various Argentinian prisons, they are now performing scenes from their lives – turning them into fiction. After being released, they now have to ask themselves how they can look into the future although they are being chased by their past. They have all served their sentences and tried to start a new life, but now they are being confronted with the difficulties caused by their record. They share their most intimate desires on stage and in doing so, reclaim their future. They give insights into a repressive system and the fight for survival in a country characterized by inflation and right-wing populism. Los días afuera / The days out there, which is a musical, vaudeville, documentary and play all at once, moves between voguing and Cumbia melodies – an ode to freedom.

 

Lola Arias is an author, theater and film director as well as a performer whose work constantly explores new ways of telling the life stories of people and bringing different performers together on stage. Her productions play with the boundaries between reality and fiction. Influenced by her work as an author, Lola Arias constructs stories, documentary texts and traces of real and speculative pasts, presents and futures on stage. Lola Arias has been a guest at Festival Theaterformen several times, most recently in 2021 with the joint production of Schauspiel Hannover and Festival Theaterformen Ich bin nicht tot. In 2024 she received the prestigious International Ibsen Prize.

Production credits

Text, Direction Lola Arias Performance Yoseli Arias, Paulita Asturayme, Carla Canteros, Estefania Hardcastle, Noelia Perez, Ignacio Rodriguez Music Inés Copertino Dramaturgy Bibiana Mendes Set Design Mariana Tirantte Artistic Collaboration Alan Pauls Costume Andy Piffer Video Martin Borini Technical Direction, Light Design David Seldes Composition Ulises Conti, Inés Copertino Sound Design Ernesto Fara Stage Hand Andrés Pérez Dwyer Choreography Andrea Servera Assistant Director Pablo Arias Garcia Production, Tour Management Emmanuelle Ossena & Lison Bellanger, EPOC productions Production, Administration Lola Arias Company, Mara Martínez Tour Management Lola Arias Company, Lucila Piffer Production, Administration Argentinia Luz Algranti & Sofia Medici Technical Production Ezequiel Paredes Produktion Assistance Juan Manuel Zuluaga Bolivar Assistance Set Design Lara Stilstein Assistance Technical Direction Facundo David Casting Talata Rodriguez (GEMA Films) Legal Advice Felix Helou Social Work Soledad Ballesteros & Matias Coria Photos Eugenia Kas 

In co-production with Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Automne Paris, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Comédie de Genève, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Festival Tangente St Pölten - Festival für Gegenwartskultur, Theaterfestival Basel, Kaserne Basel, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Nationaltheatret Oslo, Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain, Le Parvis Scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, La Rose des vents Scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve-d'Ascq, NEXT Festival, Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, The Brighton Festival, CDN Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire and Fonds TransFabrik – deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste.

Supported by Goethe Institut.