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About the play:
Agile comedy,
hilarious farce! In a Mexican city, the small world of people who dream,
desire and suffer, debating between educational goals and sexual principles,
who struggle to fin an equitable balance.
At a time of crisis, following the Mexican Revolution, TE
JURO JUANA… shows us people in their simplicity, obsessed with finding
happiness.
To the Playwright from
the Artistic Director:
Many years ago, a humble – though great – master of the
theatre told me that the way to ensure a dynamic performance, and to meet
all production standards, is by selecting a classic text, so that its
theatrical value and popularity would guarantee an understanding of the
play’s message. At the time, I paid little attention to his advice. However,
today, as we launch a season devoted to Latin American classics – with a new
company of artists, the master’s words ring true. Today, we feel the
presence of a great, classic playwright – Mexico’s Emilio Carballido. Master
of comedy, adept at farce, he possesses the virtue and the secret of
unconditional love for his characters, presenting them with the voice of the
people – for the people. Now, stagelights will illuminate what seems to be
effortlessly planned, but it is much more complicated. It is hard to create
characters who speak of their desires yet doubt what they do; it is not easy
to be mere mortals and heroes or leaders at the same time; if we include
that his is farcical comedy at the turn of the century, the difficulties
would seem to be greater, but this is not the case. We approached Master
Carballido’s text with the advise of another great master, and we achieved
an amalgam of Humble and Talented Masters. The rest, lives under the
stagelights – and with our respectful homage to Master Don Emilio
Carballido.
Mario Marcel
About the author:
Emilio
Carballido was born in Cordoba, Veracruz in 1925, and for decades has been
the most loved and admired playwright in Mexico. His works, visionary and
universal in theme and style, are a powerful interpretation of the history
of his native land. He is the author of various novels, including “Las
Visitaciones del Diablo” (Visitations from the Devil) which was brought to
the screen, and has also written for television. He continues to serve as a
literary editor for many Mexican contemporary playwrights, and is currently
the publisher of TRAMOYA magazine which he founded in1975. Mr. Carballido
has written more than fifty plays, not including more than thirty very
well-known “Estampas” or short works. He has experimented with every
theatrical genre, from religious plays to farce, pausing along the way for
genuine realism. Among his works are “Rosalba y los Llaveros” (Rosalba and
the Key Rings) first produced in 1950; “Medusa”, “Felicidad” (Happiness –
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Prize), “Un Pequeño Día de Ira” (A Short Day of Rage –
Casa de las Américas Award); “Silencio, Pollos Pelones, Ya Les Van a Echar
Maíz” (Quiet, Bald Chicken, You’ll Soon Get Some Corn); “Hombre (Man) No.
31”; “El Relojero de Cordoba” (The Watchmaker of Cordoba); “El Día Que
Soltaron Los Leones” (The Day They Freed the Lions); “Te Juro, Juana, Que
Tengo Ganas…” (Honestly, Juana, I Really Wanna…); “Las Cartas de Mozart”
(Mozart’s Letters); “D.F. 26 Obras en un Acto” (D.F. 26 One-Act Plays);
“Fotografías en la Playa” (Photographs on the Beach) and many more.
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