Teatro Nucleo's 'Contra Gigantes' Blends Don Quixote with Latin American Dictatorship Memory

Teatro Nucleo presents 'Contra Gigantes', a performance directed by Horacio Czertok that reimagines Don Quixote as a figure of resistance against power, linking the novel's themes to contemporary political struggles. The show is part of the Festival Post-Memoria, held in a space dedicated to Julio Cortázar. Before the performance, lawyers defending victims of Operation Condor and children of the disappeared spoke on stage, drawing parallels between the 1970s dictatorships in Latin America and current migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Czertok, who previously staged 'Quijote!' in the 1990s with over 300 performances worldwide, now performs with minimal props, relying on physicality and spoken word. The festival avoids rhetorical memory, presenting facts and using theater to add imagination. The performance references the disappeared priest Oscar Venturelli, whose daughter attended. The event took place in Emilia Felix, Italy, near the Po River.