The Argentine theatre company Timbre 4 presents Tebas Land at the Auditorio, a work by playwright Sergio Blanco.

This stage proposal's performances take place at La Salita on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Auditorio de Tenerife has scheduled this week in its theatre hall ‘La Salita’ the play Tebas Land, by the Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco. The performance is presented by the company Teatro Timbre 4, and the shows will take place on Saturday and Sunday (6 and 7 December) at 7.30 p.m., and on Monday (December 8) at 12 noon. Following the Saturday show, members of the Argentine company will join the audience for a post-show discussion.

Sergio Blanco selects parricide as the core theme for his Tebas Land, inspired by the legendary myth of Oedipus, the life of 4th-century European Saint Martin of Tours, and a judicial file created and imagined by Blanco that narrates the trial of a young parricide named Martín Santos.

The story begins here, with various meetings on a prison basketball court between the parricide and a playwright who wishes to write about the young man’s story. Little by little, Tebas Land is focusing more on a theatrical staging of the meetings than on a reconstruction of the crime. Distancing itself from the ethical matter of parricide, it centres on the aesthetic potential of its representation and the possibility of offering a thesis on the theatrical event.

This face-off features Gerardo Otero and Lautaro Perotti as the lead actors, with Gonzalo Córdoba taking charge of the set design. For director Corina Fiorillo, ‘Tebas Land is based on the principle of in dubio pro reo, on the nude as a criterion and on duality as a guide. Our work focuses on the crude reality of exposing our theatrical artifices to make them real. The play has the complexity of the primitively simple, the origin of things and the cruelty of the word without artifice.’

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €8 and €5 for audiences under 30 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium’s box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.