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Way She Spoke, The

  • Isaac Gómez
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573709203

Based on intimate interviews, The Way She Spoke is a raw and riveting one-actor exploration of the women silenced by violence and fear in the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes


  • Performance Group:
  • Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A haunting and theatrical one-woman play, The Way She Spoke travels from a New York stage to the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico, where thousands of women have been murdered in an epidemic of violence that has yet to stop. Written by Isaac Gómez based on his intimate interviews, the play is a raw and riveting exploration of responsibility: one playwright's journey to give voice to a city of women silenced by violence, fear and a world that has turned a deaf ear to their stories.
REVIEWS:

"An act of bearing witness... an aching, outraged work of vigil, protest and inquiry."

 The New York Times

"Isaac Gomez has drawn from interviews with real women to expose just how terrifying life in Juárez has become. It is riveting theater... Gomez’s script is a brilliant, tragic book of the dead."

 New York Theatre Guide

"At first, the terrific solo show The Way She Spoke seems simple... Gomez’s play picks its way carefully among genres: It’s half memoir, half fiction, half documentary, half memorial. That’s too many halves—there’s too much play here. But that’s because there is no appropriate response other than surfeit of anguish, of pity, of rage"

 TimeOut NY

Premiere Production: The Way She Spoke premiered at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City on July 8, 2019. Directed by Jo Bonney, the production featured Kate Del Castillo.

Characters

  • Casting: 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Latino Actor(s)

  • THE ACTRESS – Mexican (not Puerto Rican, not Colombian, not Cuban, not Dominican, not Brazilian, not Ecuadorian, not Argentinian, not Chilean, not Guatemalan, not Peruvian, not Salvadorian, not Guatemalan, not Honduran – she is Mexican. Or of Mexican descent. Or Mexican American. Tejana. Chicana.)

  • Can be as young as early twenties, and as old as late fifties. She plays fifteen different roles (including herself and the playwright), and every character she embodies is Mexican. So to best ensure that differentiation in inflection, characterization, speech pattern, and physical characterization reflects the breadth, depth and differentiation of Mexican people, THE ACTRESS must be Mexican.

  • Please cast accordingly.

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    A haunting and theatrical one-woman play, The Way She Spoke travels from a New York stage to the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico, where thousands of women have been murdered in an epidemic of violence that has yet to stop. Written by Isaac Gómez based on his intimate interviews, the play is a raw and riveting exploration of responsibility: one playwright's journey to give voice to a city of women silenced by violence, fear and a world that has turned a deaf ear to their stories.

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