L'insospettata prossimità della memoria storica: "Descarriadas" (2018) di Laila Ripoll

Descarriadas is a monologue about an atrocious legacy of Francoism: the internment in the centres of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (1941-1984) of girls considered descarriadas, that is, stragglers. To end up in these reformatories it was enough to deviate even slightly from the morals imposed by the regime and to be reported by supervisors in charge of this type of control. Among the shocking aspects of the story, the continuation of this practice and the existence of the centres until the mid-1980s stands out. Over a period of forty years, this phenomenon involved thousands of girls: another example of a silenced intra-history that the play transforms into a cry, giving voice to the victims. The text is based on meticulous documentation and shows the strategies of dramatisation of historical memory and post-memory, one of Ripoll’s favourite themes, developed once again with great originality.