Within the darkness of a timeless setting, a feminine voice emerges with drive, carrying with it the echo of 4 tales marked by resistance and wrestle.
The stage designer and actress Lizeth Rondero encourages the viewer to confront the lifetime of a gaggle of ladies branded as loopy
who had been locked up for difficult the inflexible paradigms of a sexist society.
The one-man present For concern that we sing free started its season on the Arts Discussion board of the Nationwide Arts Heart (Cenart), the place a musical mosaic of tales imbued with historic reality was displayed.
With inventive route shared with playwright Felipe Rodríguez, Lizeth Rondero wove a story that mixes up to date theatre and cabaret, providing an intense, transferring and enjoyable present.
“This one-man present is impressed by actual circumstances of ladies locked up within the so-called ‘spouse depots’, a authorized determine utilized in New Spain to restrict ladies who requested a divorce,” defined Rondero (CDMX, 1981) in an interview with The Day.
On stage, the co-artistic director, producer and singer performs Mauricia Josefa, Doña María Gertrudis, María López and Trinidad Ruiz, characters who, though rooted in a seemingly distant previous, resonate with the present struggles of Mexican ladies.
After I began the undertaking I actually needed to grasp how ladies are constructed or how they turned, the social assemble of being a lady in Mexico.
Rondero added.
Her analysis led her to find the fascinating historical past of insanity and feminine confinement, and to seek out within the annals of court docket circumstances of rebellious ladies, locked up underneath the pretext of hysteria, when in actuality they suffered from melancholy or different sicknesses attributable to gender stereotypes.
I needed characters who felt the necessity to discover methods to interrupt free from the social paradigms of their time. Thus, the work turns into a tribute to resilience and to the power of ladies to rework their setting, even from the confines of their confinement.
The playwright maintained that she was not searching for tragic heroines who ended up lifeless, however moderately ladies who, regardless of adversity, managed to outlive.
Direct reference to the viewers
The construction of the present is hybrid. The characters inform their tales with the depth of up to date theatre, whereas the cabaret, personified by a singer of that style (Lizeth Rondero), interrupts to talk on to the spectators with sarcasm and irony, questioning gender roles and freedom as an intrinsic advantage of the human being.
This useful resource permits me a extra direct and emotional reference to the viewers, by utilizing music and singing as means to introduce ideology and philosophy in an accessible and entertaining method.
stated the actress who graduated with honors in dramatic literature and theater.
I hope that individuals take away a mirrored image on the intrinsic freedom of women and men as individuals, as brokers of regulation. You will need to make seen by way of theatre the multiplicity of life experiences that being an individual implies.
Lizeth Rondero shocked the viewers when she invited a few spectators to affix her in some scenes of the manufacturing. This interplay added a contact of spontaneity and enjoyable, whereas reinforcing the message of the play concerning the significance of breaking sexist paradigms and giving ladies a voice.
The viewers, moved and enthusiastic, skilled moments of complicity and reflection, highlighting Rondero’s creativity and sensitivity in involving them within the narrative.
The artist not solely gave voice to ladies of the previous, but in addition illuminated present struggles by calling on these current to query, empathize and, above all, sing freed from any concern.
Sponsored by the Teatro de los Sótanos firm, For concern that we sing free may have performances on Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. (besides July 21) on the Cenart Arts Discussion board (Río Churubusco 79, colonia Nation Membership Churubusco, Coyoacán municipality, Mexico Metropolis).
Tickets value 150 pesos; on Wednesdays there’s a two-for-one low cost and on Thursdays tickets are offered for 30 pesos.
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