Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)
projection of a 5-week-old fetus, glowing like a crescent
moon. She is obsessed with her need to parent whilst her
husband implores her to give up, telling her he doesn't really
want a child, driving her to distraction. In the original play
this scene is pivotal and leads Yerma to strangle her husband
Juan.
25 Speech-driven scenes are only one ingredient. I chose
a multi-media approach and a multi-track narrative instead of
a single-issue drama so as to maximise layers of possible
meaning and association and to stretch the issues in
historical time and geographical place. Video material
projection - vox pop, medical and thematic - enters the
action, becoming a protagonist in itself. In the development
of the production we worked to find a synergy between the
technology and the action so that the projected material was
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