Because not all Christmas nights are one of peace and love, for 20 years the theater company Los Endebles has dedicated itself to telling new and tragicomic “anti-Christmas” stories, turning them into a tradition that brings together entire families every year-end. The Chapel Theater.
To celebrate this anniversary, the company has prepared three shows, which in total combine 11 stories as if it were the snack of a bittersweet, but very fun bonus, which will be presented in the histrionic space founded by Salvador Novo.
“This is a tradition, despite us, that is being established, which gives us great pleasure, because having a little humor and specifically black humor in these times seems very good to me. Yes, these dates are periods of family uproar, but terrible things also happen; It is a festive moment, but also, at times, sad, with many challenges and family fights, and a lot of hypocrisy,” Boris Schoemann, founder of Los Endebles, said at a press conference.
THE EXTERMINATORS RETURN
Shoemann related that the origin of this tradition dates back to the 1990s, with the texts of the Canadian Yvan Bienvenue, who with the same perspective began to write and present his “urban stories.” It would not be until 2003 that Schoemann translated his words and presented three of these stories, which he collected under the title Exterminating Angels and that this 2023 they will be presented again, on December 18 and 19.
An elderly woman in a nursing home who requests the services of a sex worker so as not to feel alone; a woman who decides to catch her rapist and a mother who faces the disabilities of her son, are the three stories that María Elena Olivares and Talía Marcela —who belong to the original cast— present together with Ana Karina Guevara .
DEEP MEXICAN HUMOR
The director also reported that after the 2003 presentation, The exterminators They appeared two years in a row. Then he began to make annual calls for dramaturgy contests, which resulted in a great diversity of anti-Christmas phenomena, which are performed year after year in La Capilla, as they will be from December 20 to 30, except on the 24th.
This year, among the characters who, according to the director, “really give birth to chayotes,” there is a man who has grown piñata beaks instead of arms, a young man who comes out of the closet after falling in love with Christ and even a woman who is traumatized by eating a suckling pig at Christmas.
Regarding how these stories, as well as the infinity that have passed through the stages, Schoemann mentions that they have a very Mexican, deeper humor, that reflects the conflicts of our authentic families.
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It is interesting that this tradition is not only reflected in the staging of these stories, but is also cultivated with new generations of future actors, playwrights and directors, who attend workshops given by this company and that result in The anti-Christmas which will complete their season on the same dates.
“Something that is very important is humor, it leads us to understand through laughter and moves us, but without hurting us anything else. These texts allow us to relate them with our relatives, with a Christmas or a New Year in which we could have had a horrible time, but through characters that allow us to exorcise everything. It is from Christmas as a pretext that we address all the capital sins of the season,” said actor André Bretón, co-director of these presentations.
Source: from El Sol de Mazatlán | Noticias Locales, Policiacas, sobre México, Sinaloa y el Mundo – frontpage on 2023-12-17 01:00:00
