The Andean performance

Once every year, the 1st year IB students present a Andean theater performance using all the information and conventions studied during the course in the year. This often means the final performance in the school for all of us and we have to present in 3 days during the first break.
For this presentation we received, during the week, the visit of our own Felipe Ayulo who discussed with us the importance of that performance and how they did them in their time. The idea of this weeks classes was to get the idea of what we wanted to portray at the presentation and to discuss a possible PPP proposal.
We got into the mood of creating and started thinking in possible ways of dividing the performance, the theme, the concept, the vision and the characters we wanted to represent, all taking into account the conventions from Andean theater and the studied information that allow us to create something from that environment.

The discussion was all about first finding a suitable theme that would not only represent the studied convention but also something that students, our audience, could relate to. We discussed the current affairs and the news that were affecting the world now until we reached the idea of "the one and the other" which summed up a bunch of good ideas with connection with discrimination and social injustice.
The idea was to say that people always think in the one and the other is despised by the whole society and so we used this idea to criticize how discrimination occurs not only between races but also inside each of them and how the lack of respect to the other people might create confrontation that harms us all. Then we decided on the theme to be presented which developed from the idea that teachers, in the past, used to represent a more authoritarian power than now and so they were like the "ONE" while students represented very well the "OTHER" and so we decided to base the whole play upon the idea of the "Entrada" and to develop a plot in which the first action would be a take over of the Churchill patio in the school and then represent the changes that occurred in time to this idea of the confrontation between teachers and students that resulted in more equality and respect from each side.
We wanted to represent a evolving situation in which first:

ONE = Teacher
OTHER = Students

The after the take over....

ONE = Students
OTHER = Teachers

and finally.....

Teachers + Students = AYLLU

These all seemed like very good ideas in the paper which would give the play a lot of dynamics in terms of the space and the actions and therefore a lot of rhythm but we also needed a guideline and so the concept was decided to be: PACHAKUTI which means the world upside down. And it is really a world upside down because the take over and the fight would then be a representation of arts and as it was defined in the past week to us: A way to express our selves that can create a change in great masses.