comments about the new show (before crossing rivers, Emilio Carballido)
Cayetano Martínez (Actor LTCI)
Stephen Plaza, is a man who loves life, but what it means to love life is what it gives you, what you build with with your partner, living in communion with the earth: plants, rivers, animals. All this prompted him to create what is proposed, have your home, your garden, your children, go hunting, live actively, because he loved the family. That's Stephen Plaza, and now alone.
is to draw attention not only the ruthlessness with which the elderly are treated in this country, but how our values \u200b\u200band customs have been subverted, perverted, and bombed by the government and large corporations. We now live in another world and I think that in this work (before crossing river), the teacher calls Carballido reflection. The first time I read I imagined what it was this city when there was still canals and rivers, while still bringing the vegetables Xochimilco. I wonder what became of that? Now I see it in pictures and I read in reviews, because this city and is monstrous. I think it is unique in the world, because every place where nature has been disrupted in this way, ends up being a mess. What once was a day trip is now a nightmare.
David Alpizar Mora (Actor LTCI)
's character before crossing rivers is a person we had the affection of their parents and the example for all to enrich what they already had built with his wife, who is the love of his life. Knows how difficult it is to get the things and the tragedy that can er get rid of everything when you least expect it. There is in him a feeling of anger and resentment that fails to develop fully because deep Esteban Plaza is the father. However, growing up surrounded by nature is invaded by the nostalgia of memories, and that it can create in him feelings of despair, as it begins to feel alone, abandoned by their children and destitute.
Plaza
were looked for ways to enrich their children with education, giving them a better quality of life, however they are embarrassed by the way his father lived nature, its own world. Of the father that they create resentment and does not want. Another concern of the teacher Carballido in this work is to make clear how so disproportionate cities have developed and attacking nature.
José de la Cruz León (Teacher and actor LTCI)
believe that the character of a man were absorbed Plaza the city, where it grows as the ranch was a place surrounded by nature. He received a rural education by their parents. Surely the school was to plant and hunt, take care of the cows and chickens, that was his life. He is a man with much experience. He did
family thinking that their children would adopt the same habits, hunting and planting the land which the father of both cared Plaza.
believe that the character had three big disappointments in his life. The first is that his wife, who is deeply in love, he dies. However, believe their children will help you get diminishing little by little the pain. But it takes another blow when he feels strong one child betrays the idea of \u200b\u200bdefending the land, as he had fought against the government and large companies, against many conflicts that the city itself was created. And she did until they no longer had the physical strength, because he never lacked moral force ", but never stopped loving his son and hoped that he might one day think. The third disappointment of his life is that her grandchildren are the bad guys with him.
All this conflict is deteriorating Stephen Plaza, to the point of feeling useless and crazy. Nevertheless kept faith with his wife, the earth and a vague hope that their children can truly love him.
Roberto Ramirez Mendez (Master of LTCI)
Esteban Plaza is the symbol of all old. It's the same story, work hard, have children and then are unprotected and forgotten. Even in some cases forcing them to let it die. Esteban Plaza are all old, not only in Mexico but around the world.
Maria Alicia Martinez Medrano (playwright and director of LTCI) Emilio Carballido
tried to tell us that the character (Esteban Plaza) is the old man who unfortunately all despise. When people reach old age, usually children and people no longer respect them. Only 8% of children worry about their old parents.
That is Stephen, a man who is left alone, abandoned, steals her son, their grandchildren will spit and say things very violent. Carballido said it very clearly, is the battle against evil, the suffering of the elderly. This work makes you mourn along with Esteban Plaza. I think it would have to write much about this neglect of the old outcast, reviled, despised, without work and without enough strength to keep doing for their children and grandchildren what they did throughout his life.