The first time the Argentine theatre-maker Lola Arias was our guest was in 2009 with 'Airport Kids', a production she directed together with Stefan Kaegi and which succeeded in touching many hearts. For ACT she will be appearing with an extremely personal work, 'Melancolía y manifestaciones', in which she talks about her mother, her past and the political history of Argentina, which marked all her personal relationships. The year Lola Arias was born, 1976, was the year the Argentine army seized power in a coup. It was the start of a period of dictatorship, state terror and economic crisis. The Junta carried on a 'dirty war' against all the forces of the opposition. Lola Arias' mother, a progressive professor of literature at the university, ended up in a post-natal depression from which she never completely recovered. 'My fault or the fault of the regime?' asks Loa Arias. In her work she enters into the harsh political reality, but translates it into poetic, moving and often humorous scenes.