presents
by Isaac Gómez, Bianca Sulaica and others
March 25: 8pm
March 26: 8pm
March 27: 8:30pm
March 28: 5:30pm
All performances for "The Women of Juarez" will be performed on the B. Iden Payne Stage in the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at the University of Texas at Austin.
"Before the war on drugs took precedence in our border country of Mexico, Ciudad Juarez had a bigger problem. Told through an ensemble of Latina women, The Women of Juarez explores the ways in which the stories of the women of Juarez – the missing and the lost; the murdered and the ones left behind – are honored and told in unconventional and untraditional ways."
As part of the Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op (www.coopnwf.org/www.facebook.com/events/545755898779591 for more information), "The Women of Juarez" hopes to honor the real testimonios of the real women in Juarez and the stories they have to tell.
Challenging the ways in which these stories are often told in books, film, and scholarship, our project activates an ensemble of ten latinas, a devised/collaborative script that doesn't follow a traditional "playwrighting" format, and a process that pulls from movement/gestures, real testimonies, generated text, public record, Mexican folkclore, and Mexican music; the world in this play is a complicated one and does not fit in the same scope a "traditional" play does.
Producer and Co-Writer Bianca Sulaica says, "For these Latina women, it's about recognizing yourself in these pictures of these missing women. And as a Latina woman, how you identify knowing that these women who are being targeted much because they are women and what they look like, and how you can related to being a possible victim because of what you look like."
Dramaturg Madilynn Garcia says, "This is a story that is going to change people. And I know it, because it's already changed me. These are stories that aren't told and having this space and this place for the stories of these women is so very important."
As part of the Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op (www.coopnwf.org/www.facebook.com/events/545755898779591 for more information), "The Women of Juarez" hopes to honor the real testimonios of the real women in Juarez and the stories they have to tell.
Challenging the ways in which these stories are often told in books, film, and scholarship, our project activates an ensemble of ten latinas, a devised/collaborative script that doesn't follow a traditional "playwrighting" format, and a process that pulls from movement/gestures, real testimonies, generated text, public record, Mexican folkclore, and Mexican music; the world in this play is a complicated one and does not fit in the same scope a "traditional" play does.
Producer and Co-Writer Bianca Sulaica says, "For these Latina women, it's about recognizing yourself in these pictures of these missing women. And as a Latina woman, how you identify knowing that these women who are being targeted much because they are women and what they look like, and how you can related to being a possible victim because of what you look like."
Dramaturg Madilynn Garcia says, "This is a story that is going to change people. And I know it, because it's already changed me. These are stories that aren't told and having this space and this place for the stories of these women is so very important."
Featuring: Karen Alvarado, Dana Arismendez, Jenefer de la Fuente, Briana Garcia, Estrella Gonzalez, Lisa Veronica Martinez, Christen Perez, Graciela Reyna, Karen Rodriguez, and Bianca Sulaica.
Production Team: Isaac Gomez, Bianca Sulaica, Madilynn Garcia, Victoria Solorio, Melinda Wright, Mose Brown, Moses Park
"The Women of Juarez" will premiere as part of the Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op March 25-29, 2013.
All performances for "The Women of Juarez" will be performed on the B. Iden Payne Stage in the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at the University of Texas at Austin.
(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)Production Team: Isaac Gomez, Bianca Sulaica, Madilynn Garcia, Victoria Solorio, Melinda Wright, Mose Brown, Moses Park
"The Women of Juarez" will premiere as part of the Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op March 25-29, 2013.
All performances for "The Women of Juarez" will be performed on the B. Iden Payne Stage in the F. Loren Winship Drama Building at the University of Texas at Austin.
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