The play ‘Kassandra’ will have performances in Saltillo this weekend

The Trojan Princess Cassandragifted of the gift of clairvoyance and the curse of invisibilityinspired the Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco to create a character in which these elements are equally significant, but much more contemporary.

“Kassandra” is a trans woman and migrant who wants to tell his story of survival, but can only do so in a seemingly universal language: English. Since it is not her mother tongue, it has deficiencies that bring her closer to the common Latin American people, but distance her from clear communication.

With the direction and interpretation of Abraham S. Tornerothis monologue will be presented in Saltillo on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 at the La Besana Cultural Center with the company Theater Identitiesas part of the call Staging Conarte 2023which is taking the theatrical proposals of Nuevo León to other borders.

“This one comes to serve our need to talk about migration through the perspective of a person from the LGBTQ+ community. We had already had previous work with this same text around 2016, and with the opportunity to participate in the Conarte call we tried to do justice to this character about whom little is known and about whom very few writers of the time have spoken. about it or if they do it, it is superficial or distorting it,” producer Eduardo Dena explained to VANGUARDIA.

In addition to the identity and situation in which this Kassandra finds herself, unlike her Greek counterpart, The work also places it in a contemporary context, with signs that also add to his personality, such as his fanaticism for Bugs Bunny, Abba and Manchester United.

“We have a lighting job that has been considered very clean and an audio by Samuel Reyes who already has a lot of experience in the town. We know in advance that this proposal would have advanced without this resource of lighting,” said Dena.

The factor that the work is written in this English deficient supports the speech, but at the same time it has the support of images and Tornero’s own interpretation to make the message accessible to the public.

“It is very easy to understand it, People who do not know English have understood it and have been willing material for this. That has been very interesting, because the experiment has worked,” she assured.

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“We believe that language is not an excuse And it has to do with what a migrant faces, that they are facing a place they do not know, different signs, people they have never seen in their life and still facing the lack of understanding, it is very important to address that issue.” , he added.

After having performed this Thursday at La Estética Foro Escánico in Torreón, they will arrive in the capital of Coahuila for two performances on Friday and Saturday at exactly 8:00 p.m. andn the theater located on the corner of Escobedo and Bravo. Tickets cost 200 pesos at the box office forks a work only for adults.