"Chismas is saying that in an engineering school it's not all about mathematics or physics".

Today, Wednesday, March 9 and Thursday, March 10, the play can be seen at auditorium de Tecnun

For Carolina Nolasco and Alicia de Vicente, directors of the Chismarracos theater group, this activity has become for the past three years their greatest escape route at the University. "It is the source to change our mentality and focus on something else that makes us let loose and have fun," as they describe almost in unison.

Today, Wednesday and Thursday they bring with "great enthusiasm to the stage the play "El caso de la mujer asesinadita" by Miguel Mihura. "We have Chismas, which we are passionate about, throughout the year and we want to give it away this week for an hour and average to the rest," says Nolasco. "Chismas comes to say that in an engineering school not everything is mathematics or physics. You can leave aside the technical aspects for a few hours and dive in," says his colleague Alicia de Vicente. To do so, please visit reserve for more information. link

There are currently ten engineering students in the group. The directors reveal that the talent is "brutal" and that the best thing is that the actors themselves make the role they have been assigned their own, making it a character that is almost better than the one at the beginning. At the slightest direction they receive from Carolina or Alicia, in a second, they pick it up and transform it. Bonds have been created between students of all Degrees and courses and despite the initial concern "because there were no people and gossip had to be renewed" have managed to recreate the family that has always characterized them.

goal The veterans graduated and last year there were no new members, so the main goal of the directors this year was to transmit the project so that the new members would want to continue it in the future. "Chismas is not so much about getting the play out, which is important, but it is about creating bonds and relationships that are maintained when the curtain closes. It brings together bits and pieces of Tecnun that otherwise would not be known," says de Vicente.

Carolina Nolasco adds that theater fosters people's growth staff . "You take people from a very technical and very square environment and you help them to get out of their day to day, to speak in public, to let go... and to push those facets that in class we don't bring out so much. You have to have discipline, but you don't have to do it with a whip behind you, but because it motivates you and makes you happy".

The role of director is to have the big picture, to look at the little things, to think as a whole. "It's not about giving instructions or saying what someone has to do. We are not there to command but to guide, to transmit the project and our vision of the work," share the two students.

Since Chismas was created, it has been the directors of a course who decide who will be in charge the following year. It had been years since two women had been in charge, as they say. Before the pandemic, the students announced it at a dinner that acted as a finishing touch. They do not yet know how or when they will say who will continue their work, but they look at each other and smile, accepting "that they have an idea or two". What is valued is that this person looks out for the good of the group and has initiative. "We are involved in so many things that we miss details and we have noticed that there are some who warn us that there is something that doesn't add up, for example. We see that she is attentive and that she has the same global vision that we are looking for.