Interpreting the Present, Imagining the Future. ‘La trilogia de l’exclusió’ Dramaturgical Research Based on Contemporary Testimonies: ‘Mar de fons’, ‘Llum trencada’; ‘L’estigma’, ‘Fils de vida’ and ‘La invisibilitat’

Abstract

La trilogia de l’exclusió is a dramaturgical research project based on testimony which began in 2017 and has now yielded results: Mar de fons (Pere Fullana, Jaume Miró, Carme Planells and Aina Salom) and Llum trencada (Carme Planells and Aina Salom). It explores the exclusion suffered by the Reds at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The two plays make up the first part of the trilogy.

The second part, with the provisional title of L’estigma, is still in process of creation. And, later, the trilogy will be concluded with La invisibilitat (also a provisional title), which will revolve around people who are invisible in contemporary society, the homeless, the undocumented, the nameless.

This paper presents the ongoing research project about the effects of the stigmatisation and rejection of a very special group: the Jews in our country and, more specifically, those who in Mallorca are called Xuetes, direct heirs of the first Jewish communities that settled in the Balearic Islands in the early 5th century. The research on “the Xueta question” and the exclusion they suffered in Mallorca until the 20th century, has resulted in a first small-format production: Fils de vida (Pere Fullana, Carme Planells and Aina Salom, based on the emotional journeys through the family memories of three characters marked by the stigma of being Xueta. Fils de vida has shown us a reality we had barely glimpsed.