Since the 1990s, scores of women in Juarez, Mexico have been mutilated, raped, and murdered at such a rate that some have called it an epidemic of femicide—killing women and girls solely because th…
, confronts the subject head-on with a story about a playwright who goes to Juarez to understand what has happened there.
Del Castillo’s character enters fresh off a frustrating audition for yet another stereotypical role for a Latinx woman. She picks up the script to read it aloud, discovering its subject as she goes, breaking character at times to converse with the silent playwright and convey her horror and astonishment at what he’s written about.
With slight costume adjustments throughout — kicking off her heels, putting her hair into a ponytail — del Castillo dons characters including a butch bus driver, a childhood friend of the playwright’s, and the slouching playwright himself. Her characterizations are clear, but they’re not always lived-in: One scene, in which she plays a grieving father raging against the apathy of government officials, exclusively in Spanish, brings out something deeper in her.
But in general, the production elements come off as both dull and distracting. The static production, directed by Jo Bonney, uses abrupt, obvious lighting cues to switch between scenes in Juarez and “the stage” where the actress speaks as herself. There are literal silhouette-style projections on a brick wall which give us wisps of a setting — trees, barbed wire, crosses. Often, they overemphasize what we have already been told.
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