MÉRIDA, Yucatan, May 6, 2023.- Murmurante Teatro will stage a play that will tell the story of six women who live in the deep south of the city and it is they themselves who will expose their reality and the way in which they have moved forward, informed the director of the theater company, Juan de Dios Rath.
The theater actor indicated that this play, called Historias de Princesas or Las Principales del sur, will be presented at the Centro Cultural Olimpo at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, within the framework of La Noche Blanca and it is the protagonists who will be performing in this event, which is free to the public.
He mentioned that this play was being developed throughout last year and a group of women from the San Antonio Xluch and San José Tecoh neighborhoods were chosen so that, based on their personal life stories, they could not only develop a script for a stage production, but also for a documentary.
He explained that they took these very personal life stories and the playwright Noe Morales Muñoz gave it form, with the objective of narrating the context in which many people live in this demarcation with the most poverty problems in the Yucatecan capital. “They are stories of neighborhoods that have been marginalized, displaced from the normal narratives”.
He indicated that because these neighborhoods have been displaced, the play seeks to make visible the narratives that are lived there, especially because it is a space where people have great life projects and a tradition of struggle and resilience, so it is an opportunity for the rest of the citizens to see these realities.
The director of Murmurante Teatro mentioned that he sees many similarities between these neighborhoods in the south of Mérida and Nezahualcóyotl, a municipality in the State of Mexico where he grew up during the 1970s, where marginalization and poverty were common denominators, but also development.
“They are not going to be playing characters that are not themselves. It is an autobiographical theater that shows stories of overcoming adversity,” said the interviewee, who added that by working with these women, a documentary called Las Principales del Sur (The Main Women of the South) was made.
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