All
progress comes at a cost to humanity. Some tasks are simple and offer
new ways of living, but something of human nature is lostor changed.
The welfare of modern society has a sacrifice in the womb. I
think art should speak of the things that society does not ordinarily see.
The end of time is not something that is to come. I do not
know if you are aware that in my country are headless bodies every day. This is
not an issue about death, but is a question about the cruelty. I think that
Europe went through this passage.
What happens to humans? Now? Since when?
Once that had my play "Touch the Earth" had a
scene that speaks of the massacre made by the Spanish against the natives, one
of the audience tells me that the scene reminded him of the massacre had the
gunmen in Mexico few months earlier. The violence has not stopped for
centuries, is generalized. But we do not see it.
The battery of my cell phone is made from a material that
takes the lives of children in a mine in South Africa.
Have you read any books by René Girard? He elaborates on
this aspect that survives in all of us, and against which some of us fight
every day. Maybe that's why we do theater. To avoid dying or not to kill, even
when the theater talking about death. We do much, and how much we do, does
little to change history. But it will not stop ever, because history would be
more cruel without theater.
Te mando un fuerte abrazo Jorge
