Lorca al vacío

“¡Y dicen que eres el dramaturgo que mejor y más profundamente ha sabido reflejar el alma de la mujer! Debería de ser una pobre gitana del poblado, la choza o el arrabal, tener niños como una cruz pesada o ser yerma, esposa legítima o adúltera desligada y verdadera, para que tú, el poeta del pueblo, me comprendieras. Pero soy sólo una mujer.”

And they say that you’re the poet that has best and most deeply known how to mirror the soul of woman. I should be a poor gypsy from the outskirts, a shanty or slum, bear children like Christ his cross or be barren and without, be a good, right wife or a loose, true adulteress, so that you, village poet, would understand me. But I am only a woman.

–translated by Daniel Sullivan and Javier Vega

inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca, performed in Spanish
written by Maria Velasco
directed by Sonia Sebastián

ARTISTS:

Click on a headshot to read the artist’s bio:

[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/soniasebastian.jpg” name=”Sonia Sebastián” title=”Director”]Sonia Sebastián is a renowned theatrical Director and Producer in Spain having created numerous plays with her company Teatro de Cámara Cervantes.Twice she was a finalist for Theater Valle Inclán’s Prize as director of El imaginario de Cervantes (2011) and El viejo celoso y la cueva de Salamanca (2010). In 2012 she received the XXI Life Culture Prize in Spain. She also received a Special Mention in the Almagro Festival in 2013 as director of Shakespeare’s Mucho ruido y pocas nueces (Much ado about nothing). She is a Co-Funder of Microtheatre Por Dinero in Madrid which is known for producing 15 minutes plays. She studied Drama at the prestigious Drama School in Madrid, RESAD. Sonia studied filmmaking at the well-known TV and Film School, San Antonio de Baños in Cuba. www.soniasebastian.com

We did a mini interview with Sonia. Click here.[/headshot]

[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Erika-Y-Perez-4746.jpg” name= “Erika Yanin Pérez” title=”Performer”]Erika Yanin Pérez is an actress and voice-over professional and is thrilled to be part of this festival. She is known for “Maria Elena Santiago” in the West Coast Premiere of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and as “Ella” in Coser y Cantar. Erika loves the craft of acting whether it is on stage, on-camera or behind a microphone. Some of her voice-over credits include Old Navy, Levy’s and Macy’s. When Erika is not acting, she enjoys salsa dancing, rock climbing and organic gardening.[/headshot]

[headshot src=”https://cuttingball.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/headshotmirking.jpg” name= “Xavier Galindo” title=”Performer”] Xavier Galindo was born and raised in Lima, Peru. At age 15 he migrated to San Francisco, CA with his sister to join his father who had left Peru in 1992. There he got involved in working with youth in the Mission for the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, where he worked until the age of 28. At 29, he began to pursue an acting career, and at 32 he directed a film that won a competition to represent SFSU on a national level. Although it did not win; it was selected to go to the Cannes Film Festival and it was nationally nominated for the best film with a social justice message. He graduated SFSU with a BA in broadcasting in 2014. [/headshot]