About the play

A feeling of deep commitment to the struggle of women carries this play into the unexpected conflicts between reality and fantasy. The struggle is seen as women not against man, but rather against the caricature in which man has converted himself. Man, in his misguided attempt to justify the unjustifiable, trying to be democratic, but unable not to be “phallocratic”.

From the director

To continue… onward, but from the same starting point as always – to spread the best of Latin American theater; to offer growth and opportunity through new dramatic techniques and perspectives.

To continue… opening doors through which playwrights can take their work and also take the risk of leaving the known behind.

To continue… creating the style that identifies us as a stage where all nationalities can come together and grow through their theater.

Today, as in the beginning, we can say we have accomplished what we set out to do. A Mexican play, an unknown work up to now, is brought to life by actors from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Paraguay, Puerto Rico and the United States. Some are taking to the stage for the first time; others are veterans of the stage. But they all make us feel, yet again, proud and very pleased to hear the words of Sabina Berman through the voices of an entire continent.

RAISE THE CURTAIN… and always WITH THE BEST LATINAMERICAN FLAVOR!

Mario Marcel.

About the author

Sabina Berman was born in México in 1955. Her first play, Yankee, won the 1974 National Theater First Prize, an award she received three more times, for her following works, Herejia, Rompecabezas and La maravillosa Historia de Chiquito Pingüica. Her script, La Tía Alejandra, written in collaboration with Delfina Careaga, received the ARIEL Award of Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. She has also written poetry, collaborated with the magazine Siempre and the newspaper La Jornada, as well as published a novel, La Bobe.

In Entre Villa y Una Mujer Desnuda, Sabina Berman plays out the drama of a woman trying to define the real limits of being a female. It’s a theme that Berman touches on repeatedly, as it takes us to the boundaries that limit the person and her surroundings.

And Berman knows well how to show the rough veins of this gem of a theme. She let us glimpse the primal macho hidden within the progressive intellectual and the desire to be loved smoldering within even a liberated woman. She demonstrates that her work is not something improvised but rather the result of rigor, that humor is not a banality, but rather a tool for critique and reflection; and that you can construct a sense of freedom if you acquire the needed knowledge and the experience.

The film version of Entre Villa y Una Mujer Desnuda is nominated for the 1996 Oscar award to Best Foreign Film.

Cast
Gina............……………………………….. Eva Piccolo
Andrea...........…………………………….. Carmen Parejo
Adrián............…………………………….. Luis Caram
Ismael...........……………………………... Walter Mastrapa
Villa............……………………………….. Javier Terán
Mujer.............……………………………… Paloma Rosa / Liza Díaz
Doña Micaela.........……………………… Nucky Walder