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Scenario: Mostly dark with dry earth. A steel square
structure measuring 2.5mts by 3mts, and in each of its upper corners there will be convex traffic mirrors. These mirrors will serve to show the cracks of the human mind, as that constant monitoring and surveillance to which we are submitted to.
In the central part of the scenario is a petate, earth a black chair and an iron bowl.
Main Character: A dark skinned man in his thirties. He will be barefoot. There is a fictional amputation that is reflected when he is violated and then ‘he’ becomes a ‘woman’. He represents a ‘Maria’. This corresponds to the constant discrimination against women in Latin America and the ideological ‘manhood’ that she looses in her state as a woman in society in which she can be humiliated because of being an organic source of life.
Secondary Characters: Four doctors with generic white robes.
Priest, Doctor and Healer are performed by the same main character. Each secondary character is ‘...an embodiment of each of the characters who have abused her, who have entered into her unconscious and moved into present time as independent characters’.
This problem is solved by the animalised satire of each of these characters, and with the strategy of giving mobility only to the main character, in an effort to humanize the weakest character, and give her a 'place' in society.
The priest corresponds to a heavy ruminant character that weighs each possibility and judges. The Doctor is a scavenger whose essence is a lurking vulture who eagerly awaits the fall of its
prey. The healer has a festive character, he is a spider monkey who celebrates and tries to manipulate people with his tricks.
The curtains will remain closed. Before the play starts and without warning, the audience hears the following lines.
The voice is from the actor Jesus Estada whom was previously recorded at CMMAS.org. The voice depends on each character. There is also a voice recorded with the computer as part of the performance.
The play is divided in 23 sections and grades to different color ambiances depending on the “dialogue” on the scene.
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Title Performance pictures: ‘Advocating Visibility for the Mentally ill Minority in Mexico: An adaptation of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis to a Mexican context’.
Scenario: Mostly dark with dry earth. A steel square
structure measuring 2.5mts by 3mts, and in each of its upper corners there will be convex traffic mirrors. These mirrors will serve to show the cracks of the human mind, as that constant monitoring and surveillance to which we are submitted to.
In the central part of the scenario is a petate, earth a black chair and an iron bowl.
Main Character: A dark skinned man in his thirties. He will be barefoot. There is a fictional amputation that is reflected when he is violated and then ‘he’ becomes a ‘woman’. He represents a ‘Maria’. This corresponds to the constant discrimination against women in Latin America and the ideological ‘manhood’ that she looses in her state as a woman in society in which she can be humiliated because of being an organic source of life.
Secondary Characters: Four doctors with generic white robes.
Priest, Doctor and Healer are performed by the same main character. Each secondary character is ‘...an embodiment of each of the characters who have abused her, who have entered into her unconscious and moved into present time as independent characters’.
This problem is solved by the animalised satire of each of these characters, and with the strategy of giving mobility only to the main character, in an effort to humanize the weakest character, and give her a 'place' in society.
The priest corresponds to a heavy ruminant character that weighs each possibility and judges. The Doctor is a scavenger whose essence is a lurking vulture who eagerly awaits the fall of its
prey. The healer has a festive character, he is a spider monkey who celebrates and tries to manipulate people with his tricks.
The curtains will remain closed. Before the play starts and without warning, the audience hears the following lines.
The voice is from the actor Jesus Estada whom was previously recorded at CMMAS.org. The voice depends on each character. There is also a voice recorded with the computer as part of the performance.
The play is divided in 23 sections and grades to different color ambiances depending on the “dialogue” on the scene.
Work type Choreography and drama
Tags ‘advocating visibility for the mentally ill minor
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