HE

Open Rehearsal of HE and other work at The Thursday Group, June 30, 31 / 2021

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Conceived, written and performed by Salvadoran-Australian theatre practitioner Rodrigo Calderón. HE, is a physical storytelling, a reckoning with the oceanic waters of troubled masculinity, a questioning of the socio-religious conditioning of our upbringing, an enlightenment of the shadows of the past, an acceptance of the unrealised traumas lingering in the family, a sexual liberation; a poetic closure.  Placed in the backdrops of a postwar sleepy coastal town (in this side of the pacific or another) where nothing ever happens.

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After these first performances of HE at the Fluorescent Festival in Queensland 2020, Calderón is creating a second, full-length iteration. The trauma of war is a shadow that casts over subsequent generations; in the next steps of HE’s journey, Calderón and his Thursday Group collaborators will explore the themes of absent parents, family and meeting the secrets of the past.