On Saturday, the Amaia will bring the story based on a 17th century Basque-Mexican nun and writer whose biography is still astounding
KEPA OLIDEN | Wednesday, 2 December 2020
A musical show that tells the story of a woman who confronts everything and everyone will open the cultural programme for December in the Amaia antzokia on Saturday 5. The play is called 'Yo, La Peor del Mundo' (Me, the Worst in the World) and the Vaivén company will bring to the stage the life and work of the Basque/Mexican poet and prose writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), a religious sister from Hieronymite who lived in the times of the former viceroyalty of New Spain. With the strength of her verses, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz bewitched the Mexican colonial court of a decadent Empire where she became a lover of the powerful, muse of the Golden Age and victim of a Church that could not subdue its rebellious spirit. This is a vitalist show, infected with the colour, music, beauty and imagination of a woman who was a genius in her time and who continues to amaze us in ours.
The original text is by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa and the music by Iñaki Salvador. Olga Margallo directs a cast composed of Ugaitz Alegría, Nerea Gorriti, Ylenia Baglietto, Ana Pimenta and Itxaso Quintana.
Juana was the daughter of a couple who did not marry. The fact that she was 'illegitimate' and also a woman makes Juana's life a kind of feminist big bang that shook the foundations of the Mexican court.
Juana shows that her greatest invention is not her literary works but her own biography. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz imagines a new kind of woman with a new kind of role in society.
Juana wants to have a voice in theology, poetry, theatre, prose, love and even politics. Sister Juana Inés invents a woman who is forbidden, who is not imagined, projected, manifested.
The musical genre becomes the perfect vehicle for a spirituality originated in the sensuality of rhyme, of homosexuality, of transformism.
Yo, la peor del mundo', as its creators claim, is a punk tale that tells of the possibility of the impossible. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz is the sister of Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo... Juana is a timeless lighthouse that has become an icon and inspiration for anyone who dares to imagine himself or herself as a free being.
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