By Bernardo Moreno
The Argentine artist Sonia Alejandra García is bringing to San Miguel de Allende the shadow play, “Fin.” Music for the performance will be provided by the Oaxacan violinist, Javier Celis. This event will be a breathtaking effort to update the shadow theater paradigm.
The staging is intimate. Through the manipulation of screens, photographs, and acetates, the audience sees lights and shadows. They speak to us of profound concepts such as life, the passage of time, and death. What happens to memories? Is there a way to let go of some and keep others? What are we to make of Memory and Oblivion? The captured light represents the past, while the shadows represent an almost unreal present.
The artist poetically gives meaning to the story of an old woman, recalling her life as death approaches. “When is it really the end of a life and its stories?” Cosmonautas Teatro de Sombras is an independent company created in 2015 by Sonia Alejandra García. It is currently based in Oaxaca and Buenos Aires. Garcia is always in search of new ways to relate to the public, and this is her most recent offering. It will be presented at El Sindicato Centro Cultural Comunitario, next Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 of February, at 7pm. The general entrance has a cost of 150 pesos and preferential of 80. You should not miss this!
