2023-05-23 02:10:34
This Sunday ended the premiere season of the work “May God distribute luck”in which its author, camila villegaspart of the field of bullfighting to establish topics about feminism and gender roles.
However, the staging by Mabel Garza Blackaller and the company Northern Light Theater Fiction intervenes with a documentary investigation: the story of the Coahuila bullfighter Laura Canizales “The Pharaoh” interwoven to settle the questions and reflections it raises.
These types of exercises, however, are not common, firstly because the encounter with the life of Canizales was a coincidence –which, for its part, is full of parallels with Elsa Sanchez, protagonist of the text by Villegas–, and secondly because not every playwright allows his work to be “messed in”.
“In my case what drives me to write theater and not novel or short story is that it ends up being a collective creationIn this sense, I am open to this type of proposal, in addition to the fact that, in some way, I feel that the way in which I wrote the novel is replicated, it is the same way in which it is being staged”, explained the playwright in interview with VANGUARD
For the creation of “Que Dios reparta suerte”, the writer based herself on the personal story of two female bullfighters, Hilda Tenorio and Mari Paz Vegaso that fiction already has its foundations in the experience of women in bullfighting, but the documentary crossing that Garza Blackaller raised returns the situation to reality and, above all, solidifies it for the Coahuila public.
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“I wanted to talk about the aspirations of women in a macho world, because the world of bullfighting is sexist to a fault. It was about taking it to the extreme, a woman, a physical conflict, and putting her in a macho world,” she explained.
On the other hand, inspired by Mari Paz’s brother, who trains her and despite the fact that they both wanted to be bullfighters, she was the one who had “the art” and the possibilities of achieving it, she developed the character of Tomás, Elsa’s partner and who also recognizes his talent and opts to take a support role rather than continue to pursue the luminarywithout giving in to the social pressure of a world that disdains him for that decision.
“I was interested in taking care of this aspect, that the characters were feminists regardless of their gender, regardless of whether they were a woman or a man, and through the story of Mari Paz, who has this brother who supports her and who does not occupy the center of attention. Attention, I think Tomás”, pointed out the author, “is a love story of characters who disrupt gender roles and who both face this conflict of paternity-maternity in the profession.”
DRAMATURGY OF OTHER LOOKS
We have also seen De Villegas in Saltillo the assembly of “Jacinto and Nicolasa”his second dramatic work, which was presented on several occasions under the direction of Gabriel Neaves between 2016 and 2018 and intertwines two monologues in which The Rarámuri worldview is reflected, as well as their marginalization.
The author relates this and the rest of her work arguing that “I write about what moves me and what moves me”, but above all, it emphasizes the characters and stories that allow us to show different views of the world.
“Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, short story writer, novelist, many years ago, in a workshop with him, said that we write to surround our silence because we can’t name it and I think that’s my experience with writing. I write of what I have no answer, so i need to tell myself a story to see if I can answer those existential doubts that assail me ”, he shared.
“I think that both in ‘Jacinto and Nicolasa’ and in ‘May God distribute luck’ we have a man and a woman who inhabit the world differently. For me I think it is important to stage other possible ways of being in this world, ”she added.
This also finds resonance in her other facet as the author of texts for young audiences, theatre for kidson which he gave the workshop “Theater made by children for children” at the Municipal Institute of Culture of Saltillo at the beginning of May.
Villegas attended the premiere of the play ‘May God distribute luck’.
“I am interested in these characters who are on the periphery and the children also inhabit the periphery. These sectors are excluded from our society and in that sense, for me, writing for young audiences has that double appeal, because I don’t only approach characters who are not normally part of the focus where we are paying attention”, he declared.
Regarding this type of theater, he assured that It is a space where more play can be allowedin addition to requiring greater complexity, since “children do not go to the theater alone” and the plays must have at least two levels of reading one for the little ones and one for their parents.
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“I just start writing children’s theater when my children are born and I realize that other different look. Jacinto, Nicolasa, Tomás, Elsa, look at the world from a different perspective and I lived that surprised look that my children had of the world, they allowed me to observe things or understand things from another place that before seemed impossible to see them, “he concluded.
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