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Yo no soy bonita

Play Information

Original Title	Yo no soy bonita
English Title	I´m not pretty
Director	Angélica Liddell
Country
Year	2005
Lenght	60 min

Cast

Angélica Liddell

Datasheet

AUTOR DE LA OBRA: Angélica Liddell
COMPAÑÍA: Atra Bilis
DIRECTOR DE LA OBRA: Angélica Liddell
DISEÑO DE ILUMINACIÓN: Carlos Marquerie
DISEÑO DE SONIDO: Félix Magalhães
DISEÑO DE ESCENOGRAFÍA: Angélica Liddell
DISEÑO DE VESTUARIO: Angélica Liddell
TÉCNICO DE ILUMINACIÓN: Félix Garma, Octavio Gómez
VIDEO-CÁMARA: Vicente Rubio
REGIDORA: Carmen Quintana
PRODUCCIÓN: Gumersindo Puche
COPRODUCCIÓN: Iaquinandi, S.L., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Description

The solo performance Yo no soy bonita, also presented as “action” or “performance art,” is a critique of patriarchal society and the roles that are imposed on women at birth. Through autobiographical narration, ranting sections executed in the style of rap, and ritual actions performed with objects on her body, Liddell builds a performance that is as cruel as it is poetic, “an act of disobedience” to “end the tyranny of shame, through beauty”. Through a gothic aesthetic that includes a white horse on stage, this performer executes brief and intense acts, attempting to exorcise pain and elaborate social violence through poetic forms. A manifesto against gender-based violence, the play contains different emotional registers: moments of pure presence in which the performer develops actions in real time that turn into strong symbolic images, as well as moments in which the story is conveyed by video projections that transport us to the time of a fable. Yo no soy bonita is essentially a play in which Liddell offers her body as matter and agent in order to question and demystify the roles assigned to women in a violent society.

Photo: Francesca Paraguai