Aurea Márquez shakes the Texas space with a shocking monologue

The rhythm of life we ​​lead, especially in the big cities, prevents us from establishing links with certain people who live in our environment. This often happens with the residents of L’Escala that we cross on the street, in l’Escala or on the landing and that we just greet with a smile or a simple gesture with our heads: do we know them? What do we really know about your life and your problems? Do you need help?

This is one of the initial approaches he proposes The second -third woman second. The monologue written by Victor Borràs tells the story of Raquel, interpreted by Aurea Marqueza person about the fifty who lives alone with his son and who arrives at the Escala meeting with a very special request: he has decided to explain a fact related to mental illness and needs to ask for a delicate favor from his neighbors.

“It’s a powerful, alive and committed story,” he says Ivan Benetdirector of the play: “I knew that the story that had been imagined sprinkled and slid down, until reaching the place where the theater must arrive: in the field of difficult questions.” The play He raises questions with difficult answer and reflects on the social stigma that people suffering from a mental illness and who questions whether public health is ready to treat them: “It’s A question that as a society must worry about and a lot: how we must structure our (public) health so that our society is a place where mental illness is not exclusively seen as a danger, where those who suffer it can incorporate it Do you socially without being seen as the crazy thing in the village? “, explains Benet.

Aurea Márquez He interprets this mother that the only thing he tries to show is the great love he feels for his son: “We need to listen to her,” says the director of the play: “We must approach it with respect, as if We put inside his brain or in a forest full of bugs of knowledge and, once inside, understand that the suffering of a mother by his son is immeasurable and only comparable to the love he has, “he concludes .

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