This first person account of a Salvadorian remembrance theatre project, called "So That It Never Happens Again," recounts the testimonies of survivors of the massacre of La Quesera (1981) in El Salvador. The author states that the history of this massacre was unspoken for twenty years. When survivors began to recount the tragedy, several steps were taken to begin processing it, including the forming of a support group, exhumation of some of the mass graves for proper reburial, and the purchase of the massacre location for a monument site. An effort to lobby the government for legal recognition of the tragedy is also underway through the organisation Tutela Legal del Arzobispo del San Salvador. As recounted here, the theatre project to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the massacre also has the goal of reconstructing historical awareness of the tragedy.

The general objectives of Art Corps volunteers is to "share art as a tool to engage participation and raise awareness of social and environmental issues" in Central American communities. Specific to this project is skill development in community leadership and activism for social change. To that end, the troupe of youth actors heard testimony of massacre survivors, in order to shape the piece of theatre and build their performances as representing these testimonies; met again with the survivors to reconnect with those for whom they were speaking on the stage; and then gave their performance... "[as if] their voices were reaching to the other side where the ancestors dwell. The survivors [in the audience] watched their suffering being transformed into an act of creation and witnessed their own courage and dignity with tears in their eyes. Theater opened a space for the community to remember together, to heal and commit to creating a world where this would never happen again."