Teatro La Lavandería

Ella

INFORMATION

She is Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz and we want to pay tribute to her by naming the author of the first intellectual manifesto for women's right to know: Respuesta a Sor Filotea is the central text of a three-act monologue that begins as Sister Juana has just written her Respuesta (reply); a lucid and scholarly discourse on the universal right to education and the love of wisdom. Ella's gaze transcends time with a modern and powerful text that strengthens and enlightens us through the centuries. Child prodigy, poet and thinker, religious and intellectual, Sister Juana's gaze always contains a second consideration, which makes it classic for eternal, and current for current. Teatro La Lavandería collects the literary truth of a brave woman in a hostile time, the New Spanish Baroque in Mexico at the end of the 17th century in which women were forbidden access to study. It surprises the contemporaneity of a story that is sustained in time as a tribute to women's knowledge. Words and silences sustain a dramaturgy that honors a single text written in the final stretch of the life of this exceptional nun who "never studied to know more but to ignore less".