The seeds are in the ground, and so are the irrigation pipes. With the start of the rainy season, Darling and his family have been able to resume their farming work. Drop by drop, the PECAN rainwater reservoir is filling up, a promise of better times ahead.

It took eight pairs of arms and hours of sweaty toil to turn the Carmen Cruz family land into a garden: moving the biggest rocks, plowing soil that had never really been worked, and then sowing. But already the land has begun to bear fruit. The life of the family is gradually being transformed.

Twice a week, the theatre troupe put together by the PECAN project stages an original work written for an audience of small farmers from the Estelí region. The writing takes the audience’s daily life and beliefs into account. We take a look at the play with one of the troupe’s actors and the artistic director of the HAYTA group.