Burbujas Urbanas 2023

Les barbelés

By: Annick Lefebvre (Canada)
Directed by: Luis Bizarro (Mexico)

Synopsis: As part of the public space initiative Urban Bubbles, this monologue will be presented, telling the story of a human being who realizes that barbed wire is growing inside their body—that their throat and mouth are slowly closing, making it harder to breathe. It is then that the urgent need to speak arises. To utter the final words of the final hour of their life, while there is still time. Words that have been censored for far too long, words that overflow. The choice to remain silent, too.

The One Who Fell from the Tree One Night*

By: Ana Lucía Ramírez (Mexico)
Directed by: Luis Bizarro (Chihuahua)

Synopsis: Many years ago, something happened—and the world as we knew it, divided by countries and continents, ceased to exist. A massive wall was erected: two million square kilometers, two million fenced in by concrete. Of the men and women left outside, nothing is known. Nothing is known, and nothing must be known; it is forbidden.

Within this restricted world lives a woman, Rebeca, who—defying the law—will stop at nothing to discover where she belongs, to find her place in this constrained and motionless orb.

Ana Lucía Ramírez.

* Selected through the DramaFest 2023 Canada–Chihuahua open call..

Sede CDMX
Explanada del Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)

Sábado 2 y domingo 3 de diciembre de 2023
Bloque 1. 13:30 a 15:30 hrs.
Bloque 2. 16:00 a 18:00 hrs.

Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, CDMX
Av. Insurgentes Sur 3000

Sede Chihuahua
Plaza de Armas de Chihuahua

Sábado 9 y domingo 10 de diciembre de 2023

A partir de las 11:00 h.

Calle Libertad
Frente a Casa Chihuahua, Zona Centro
Chihuahua

Deer Woman

By: Tara Beagan (Canada)
Directed by: Perla de la Rosa (Chihuahua)

Synopsis: A monologue about a warrior woman who has carried out an act of vengeance, presented as part of the Urban Bubbles public space initiative. Lila is the daughter of a hunter who taught her everything he knew. A former soldier, she finds the perfect moment to avenge the murder of her younger sister—deploying the very skills the Canadian government once trained into her. Playwright Tara Beagan served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada’s largest Indigenous theatre company.

Let Me Be Your Eyes*

By: Verónica Bujeiro (Mexico)
Directed by: Perla de la Rosa (Chihuahua)

Synopsis: Inspired by a line from I’ll Be Your Mirror by The Velvet Underground & Nico, Bujeiro constructs a relationship with the one who gazes from within the mirror. The reflection returned becomes censor, friend, enemy, and accomplice. It unveils the hidden truths of the fairy tale—and of the mother-daughter bond.

* Selected through the DramaFest 2023 Canada–Chihuahua open call.

University communities and general public in Mexico City; broader public outside formal cultural spaces in Chihuahua.