Peeled Melon

The municipality will host the performance of «Melón Pelado. Farsa no infantil para Caja de Muñecas», a stage production by the Galician company ButacaZero that combines object theatre, puppetry and irony to address one of the harshest and most silenced episodes of the post-Civil War period in Spain: the public humiliation of women who were shaved bald as a form of punishment and repression.

Written by Esther F. Carrodeguas and directed by Xavier Castiñeira, the play presents two puppeteers who open a doll's box that has become a chest of memories. From there, they construct a particular journey through Spain in the 1930s, recovering the stories of women from different parts of the country who suffered this form of violence and public ridicule.

With a theatrical language that mixes the rawness of the events with black humour and irony, «Melón Pelado» invites reflection on historical memory and on all those stories that were never written, told or photographed. The show was born as a commission from the Museo Reina Sofía for the exhibition Esperpento and later became a co-production between ButacaZero and the museum itself.