Cactácea
Synopsis
The staging is developed around the story of a man who will play the role of ‘Jesus Christ’ in the passion play during holy week. The man decides to change some texts of the performance in order to start a new nation. The attempt fails and he is taken prisoner. His wife, Guadalupe, explains what happened to their teenage son, who shows total disinterest, absorbed by pages and videos on the Internet. Around these events, the community celebrates around the legends of the nahuales and the transformation of the saviour into a rabbit, a cactus and mezcal, metamorphoses derived from the name of our country. With this anecdote, a relationship is made between the mythical, ritual and political thinking of our country and the changes it is currently undergoing due to the loss of borders on the Internet and the change of paradigms of Western culture.
Créditos
Author, director, sound design, space design and lighting: Alberto Villarreal*.
Artistic direction, puppet design and animation: Miguel Angel Gutiérrez*
Executive production: Aholibama Castañeda
Assistant director: Alejandro León
Production assistance: Mariana de León
Costume design, acting consultant: Esmirna Barrios
Costume assistance: Pepe Romero and Danitza Castañeda
Costume designer: KREASKY
Technical director: Américo García
Technical assistant: Francisco Ramírez, Gilberto Casas, Heriberto Estrada y Gerardo Jiménez
Sound engineer: Jorge A. González “Cuervo”.
Puppet production: Américo García, Claude Rodrigue, Rita Basulto, Iker Vicente, Humberto Galicia, Armando Hernández, Nicolás López, Alondra García, Rubén Castellanos, Arturo Castellanos, Álvaro Sandoval, Miguel Angel Gutiérrez, Fernando Puga.
Image design and illustration: Lago ®; César Rocca, Humberto Vanhuten, René Hernández.
LARVA (Laboratorio de Arte Variedades): Director, Lourdes Ariadna González Pérez; Operations Manager, Salvador Rodríguez Guzmán; Administration, Teresa Beltrán Diffusion: Osvaldo Fabián Elizondo García, Areli Cortés, Manuel Auroze Technicians: Óscar Moreno and Gerardo González.