Los días afuera / The Days Out There

Los días afuera / The Days Out There is a musical, a variety show, a documentary, a piece of theatre and the second part of a project that began with the film Reas, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2024. A group of cis women and trans people who were living behind bars in various Argentinian prisons, reconstructed scenes from their past lives. 

The real lives of the protagonists become a fiction in which their life stories are interwoven from the point when they were released: Nacho becomes a taxi driver, Paula starts working in an illegal textile factory, Noelia becomes a sex worker again and advocates for the rights of trans people. She and the rest of the protagonists reconstruct the challenges of life after prison and share their most intimate longings. Theatre, dance and song turn into tools that help them claim a future for themselves. Which, nevertheless, remains uncertain – that’s how the future is after all. In Los días afuera / The Days Out There, Lola Arias, winner of the prestigious International Ibsen Prize in 2024, moves between voguing and cumbia melodies – an ode to freedom.

Berlin-Premiere 14/September 2024

Production Lola Arias Company / Associated producer Gema Films / Coproduced by Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, with the support of Fonds TransFabrik – deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste.

Tour Management Lucila Piffer Production & Tour Management Emmanuelle Ossena & Lison Bellanger (EPOC PRODUCTIONS) Production, Administration Mara Martínez Production & Administration Argentinien Luz Algranti & Sofia Medici Technical Production Ezequiel Paredes Production Assistant Juan Manuel Zuluaga Bolivar Stage Design Assistant Lara Stilstein Technical Dircetion Facundo David & Matías Pagliocca Casting Talata Rodriguez (GEMA Films) Legal Advice Felix Helou Social Work Soledad Ballesteros & Matías Coria 

Production Lola Arias Company /  Producer involved Gema Films

Co-production partners: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, Festival d'Avignon (France), Festival d'Automne à Paris, Théâtre de la Ville Paris (France), Comédie de Genève (Switzerland), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium), Festival Tangente St Pölten, Festival für Gegenwartskultur (Austria), Theaterfestival Basel, Kaserne Basel (Switzerland), Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin (Germany), Nationaltheatret Oslo (Norway), Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain (Bayonne, France), Le Parvis Scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées (France), La Rose des vents Scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve-d'Ascq (France), NEXT Festival (France), Théâtre National de Strasbourg (France), International Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Germany), Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (France), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland), Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Germany), The Brighton Festival (England), CDN Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire (France), Fonds TransFabrik – deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste Supported by Goethe Institut


Photo: Esra Rotthoff

Stage Photos: Eugenia Kais & Carlos Furman