By Sabina Berman
The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The soreness of Ecstasy and different performs introduces and makes obtainable to an English-speaking viewers the paintings of the modern Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. The booklet includes translations of the 4 performs that validated Berman’s occupation: The ache of Ecstasy, Yankee, Puzzle, and Heresy. An advent by means of Adam Vers?nyi presents a severe evaluation of every play, a dialogue of the categorical difficulties of translation concerned, and site of Berman’s paintings within the better Mexican and Latin American context. It is clear that Sabina Berman’s theatrical acumen fits the intensity of her dramatic layout if it is the sheer number of recommendations from music to staged tableau that seem within the affliction of Ecstasy; the physicalization of what it skill to be interrogated and to interrogate in Yankee; the ultimate enigmatic snapshot of a soldier by myself on degree, silently aiming his firearm at an undefined danger that most likely emanates from the viewers in Puzzle; or the style within which the kin narrates its personal “heretical” activities in Heresy. it's the blend of theatrical procedure with common subject matters of self-definition that cuts throughout cultures and eventually makes those performs translatable.
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I . . Before, I . . It used to be that when I woke up from a dream it was so easy. I was in one place and with a little movement, as small as lifting my eyelids, there I was in another place, completely different, serene, as if it weren’t . . strange . . Now I open my eyes and I can’t tell if I’m closing them. . I need help. HE: You need to rest. Come on, let’s go. SHE: Anything would be better than going crazy. I’d rather die. HE: I know. SHE: (Scared) You know? HE: What’s the matter? ) María, María, please.
BILL: Do you really believe that? I deserted, didn’t I? That proves I’m a traitor, right? ROSA: Yes, Bill. You’re a traitor. BILL: (Happy) I didn’t go to Vietnam, right? ROSA: You are a traitor. BILL: Say it again. I like hearing it from your lips. ROSA: You, Bill, are a traitor. BILL: But I still feel bad. Rosa, I want to make a confession, tell you how bad I am. ROSA: It’s not necessary, Bill. That’s all in the past. You couldn’t help what you did in Vietnam. You had to survive. BILL: (Defiant) I didn’t go to Vietnam.
Only to you. I can’t see myself. I can’t see myself through my eyes. I can see myself only through your eyes, and when you look at me like that, from head to toe . . ) HE: No. Look at me. Tell me what you see. SHE: You can’t make me . . ) HE: Tell me, what do you see? SHE: I see that you’re weak. Insecure. That you can’t behave like a person independent from me. And even so, I love you. HE: Because I’m a man. SHE: Because you can’t behave like an independent person. Because you’re weak. Insecure.