Mexican actress Cecilia Suarez announced this Saturday the programming in Mexico of ‘The Invincible Summer of Liliana’, the monologue that adapts the novel of the same name by writer Cristina Rivera Garza, which narrates the femicide of her sister that occurred in 1990 in the North American country, where an average of 10 murders of women are registered every day.
Suárez, together with the play’s producers Oscar Carnicero and Claudio Sodi, explained to the media that, in this context of impunity and insecurity, it is a mistake to think that the responsibility for solving gender violence lies with women, “it is also a matter for men”.
The interpreter, best known for her work in films and series such as ‘La casa de las flores’ (2018), insisted that this adaptation makes a special invitation to the male audience, which is also “lacerated” and “hurt” by machismo.
After decades of struggle inside and outside feminism, “we women already know what we don’t want,” she added, but “the big question is: why do men resist looking at each other?”
This will be the first season in Mexico, after having premiered in Spain with the theatrical adaptation work of Peruvian Juan Carlos Fisher and Mexican-Colombian-Spanish Amaranta Osorio.
For Suárez, this new stage of the work is important, since the story will land for the first time in its roots, in that land that “hurts” and in which every day “we wake up with figures” that in reality are “lives of people and families” affected by violence.
“Institutional indolence is one of the big problems, so hopefully we will all push together,” he said.
On the situation in the country and the statements of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, that “violence against women is over”, Carnicero clarified that violence “does not end by decree”.
“We look for ways to name it differently to sweeten the reality (…) they are still dead,” he said, after confessing that “the dream is that what happened to Liliana will never happen again”.
The play will be presented on August 20 at the Teatro de la Ciudad in Monterrey, and on November 28 and 29 at the Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas in Guadalajara, as part of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) program.
It will also be on December 3 at the Armando Manzanero Theater in Merida, on December 5 and 6 in Guanajuato and will have eight performances from December 10 to 20 at the Julio Castillo Theater in Mexico City.
The producers announced that the play will have an international tour again in Spain, where it premiered last year, and also at the Teatro a Mil International Festival in Chile, as well as presentations in Colombia, Peru, Argentina and with expectations in Brazil.
Liliana’s Invincible Summer’ is one of the most important literary phenomena of the last decade due to its social relevance. In addition, its author received the Pulitzer Prize in 2024 in the category of ‘Memoir or Autobiography’, reported Agencia EFE.
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