Melancholia of the tourist is a small theatre-cum-cinema with a thick layer of patina, a dream-play of gentle things that appear only briefly in the flickering light: old postcards and photographic slides, old machines, fragile mechanisms, miniatures of paper and tin. Based on research in Cuba and the fashionable Mexican beach resort Acapulco, the dreamy illusions that make holiday destinations appear like a kind of paradise are gleefully deconstructed. Behind the façade, the harsh realities of those who live there are all too often ignored. And we are prompted to ask ourselves why we long for something that never really existed.

Oligor y Microscopía is a collaboration between Jomi Oligor (Hnos. Oligor) and Shaday Larios (Microscopía Teatro) that began in 2013. Their common fascination with mechanical toys, machines, and objects involving light and sound inspired them to develop poetic research methods into the memory of things. This gave rise to their current production in 2019, in which fiction and reality become fused in an atmosphere of incomparable intimacy between performers and the audience.