Director's Note

The way we process our day, our week, our trauma, and our triumphs are through dreams. Whether  we have the memory or not our experiences are processed nightly through these inexplicable actions of our imagination. This is how we began our process, exploring this play through how women and femme bodies process their daily trauma. Each scene follows Lupita through a night of dreams as she processes the societal pressures, stereotypes, and stigmas of being a femme being, specifically in Mexican and wider Hispanic cultures. This play explores the realistic by embracing the absurd nature of each scene. While the dialogue and actions of each scene may seem overtop, they are grounded in real life scenarios and experiences. This is crucial. This play is not absurd for the sake of absurdity, rather absurd for the sake of exploring reality. I thank Rosario Castellanos for her words and
experiences, I thank the cast for their trust and emotional vulnerability, and lastly I thank you for your time and understanding.
 

“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off to a sanatorium.I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for, though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so badly they take you away from the known world for wanting it?”
   ― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

       With Love,
       Drewe Goldstein
       (They/ Them)
       Director