Make Yourself Into A Wolf

Thomas Espinosa talks about Emilio Carballido the LTCI

About a series of plays by the Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena (LTCI) in Oxolotán, Tabasco, the Mexican playwright Tomas Espinosa (1947-1992) published on June 18, 1984 an article entitled Theatre to be, full image. The late author of The trials of a lizard and buried Television noted: "Oxolotán, Tabasco, is the scenario: all the people, the river the streets, the ruins of the temple full of roots and vegetation finally lush mountain forum, where we long have Lilus Kikus and Blood Wedding -. The whole village is a large theater where it is represented and lived St. Matthew Passion . All are actors and spectators at the same time, authors and characters, too. "

In the newly created Maria Alicia Martinez Medrano see what the playwright said: "The concept of the show is topical and not anecdotal. Hence, do not ever fall in public areas of religious theater or tacky decorations of the hagiographical craft. "

argued that "for the imagination Mary Alice and imaginative vitality of the people oxoloteca no walls or obstacles or barriers. The storms wiped them three times scenarios designed in the river and ultimately the nature temporized and left them where we were sitting on the roots of a beautiful tree. And Mary Alice directs as if he were making the grand opera of the world's creation, the great drama of the universe: the overture is a parade of young people in canoes. And all so outrageous images of beauty like the bathroom of the people, the temptations of Satan, the annulment conception, the birth of a child oxoloteca of ineffable beauty, with angels oxolotecas that birds appear. Mary Alice rescues the beauty of the town and returns in perfect synthesis: that rirmo speech, that rhythm of walking and the beauty of the faces and bodies, the freshness, strength, its ability playful and cosmogony. "

To tell Espinosa, Mary Alice used to mount his work ninety percent of theatrical images "because in the end, the theater is to see and not to hear. What else can you say about perfection? "

De Lilus Kikus and Blood Wedding claimed that the playwright assemblies led by Maria Alicia Martinez Medrano "is reflected throughout the infant cosmos through the grace of our bodies, voices and light eyes. Suddenly all the pictures provoke the comparison: it would Pasolini, this would be Fellini (especially in Blood Wedding with scenes from the party), but would in essence. "

Remata his article by saying: "In theatrical jargon would say this is a blockbuster, and purity, Oxolotán is a theater that goes beyond the definitions: the solidarity of art and life."