The March 8, 1983, in Maracay, was created on March 8 Theatre group, under the influence from the statement Women's Decade (1975-1985), by the Unesco. Since then, integrated, with skilled theater people for acting, directing and playwriting, the group has staged numerous productions in theaters, plazas, streets and unconventional spaces in different regions of Venezuela, as well as in Spain and Central American countries. Maracay The group came to Caracas to present his show Last creed, with ragged performances of Laura Vargas, Angie Chourio and Lorraine Romero, Room Cabrujas, Los Palos Grandes. After a short conversation with the director and playwright Lali Argemi Armengol, we have this interview that allows to know the important work of these valuable feminist theater people Aragua state.
- Is the only exclusive group of women in Venezuela?
"I think so. In other countries is different, as in Mexico, Colombia, England, Spain, USA and Australia. Gatherings and festivals of women evidenced. What's unique is referred to actresses, the drama and direction.
- What brought them to create a women's group and thus start a task in which they carry 28?
-Stop being spoken. Stage a different look, also opposed, it gradually internalized as a group. The value of our subjectivity, our stories and the path taken by others, faced with the place assigned to women in the world, we headed into the path of research and experimentation, social and theatrical. We take pleasure to the transgression.
"Our initial interest was vindictive, wanted to disclose the most relevant articles of the Civil Code reform, which were in and how it would affect the new legal status of women, the routine of family relationships and leave the next chapter that we included and to minors. Represented an important milestone was to get rid of some of the legal burden discriminative, only a part. The social is something else, customs, and nineteenth-century social imaginary spin still inside homes, schools, everywhere ... still missing, although the social legitimacy of the discourse of women is far less muted than when we started.
- What reactions have received from the community and other theater groups?
"In the past, in the early years of street theater picked up a little of everything, applause, bad words and bad gestures, a part of the public, especially women, grateful that we were in the street talking about our rights and legislative changes and other, was angry with our presence and speech. It was an exciting time. We invading public space. In special circumstances we threw ice, tomatoes, eggs. If not for the ice, we could imagine we were in an Elizabethan theater.
"As data on stage Maracay, 26 years ago, the theater group decided to found the Casa de la Mujer Juana RamÃrez, an NGO working in terms of women's human rights and the specific area of \u200b\u200bcare and prevention violence against women.
"We have a Maracay public that follows us - that from 1992 we will see in theaters and soon on the streets, and scenic values \u200b\u200band discursive our proposals. With theater groups in the region have always shared amicably and professionally, occasional disqualification, but I do not remember. For the theater industry in general are not any reference. Making Theatre from a feminist perspective, it seems not wake up "curiosity" beyond our scope.
- Are you aware that gender makes a theater, a theater or female?
"We place ourselves in the stream of feminist theater. Women's theater does not tell us anything, or if you say, we did not identify. It sounds something like the eternal feminine and stuff. In our situation in Venezuela and Latin America - as ruthless for women - one wonders how the feminist theater has permeated the theatrical creation, while the production with gender stereotypes, dosed with something that seems liberating or "pop", with the intention to continue saying the same thing can be so successful. Well, it's a way to locate socially and theatrically.
- Do you identify with feminism?
-Si. It is a civilizational challenge. A model bloodless, indeed.
- And the play about cross-dressing and / or transsexuality as contemplated?
"We have not done works touching on themes of LGBT communities. I have some references to groups that address this reality with the aim of raising awareness, sharing and make it visible and others, to cause reflections on our concept of gender construction. One way to challenge the binary male / female and criticize the machismo. Marked Hernan is the author of an excellent investigation of theatrical transvestism.
- What do they expect the theater and why are not delivered to the movies? First
-cultural policies change annihilating. Meanwhile, continue doing theater of resistance. It is unthinkable to sacrifice the pleasure of creating and providing the appropriate process of its own discourse, which crosses the way of seeing and being and has no end.
"The theater is one of our facilities to continue in the attempt to confine the" Aristotle " then and now, builders, experts apostles misogyny. Cinema is an open door. At this moment there is nothing concrete.
- What is the intellectual position to the status of women in Venezuela and the world ?
"The difference that makes sex between men and women are reversed in a socially constructed inequality. Western patriarchal society is working with strategic ways to deny or to lose track of what they claim or what happens to women, is a repetitive story. Each historical-political stage is how to intervene to mask what we imagine to be and what we really are. At this point, for example, women should be a show for others.
"The general ignorance of the history of women, that the feminist researchers, historians, painters, writers, photographers and playwrights are dragging out, the lack of real power, the absence in positions of power, the body confiscated with the habit of denying or naturalize dissatisfaction, or brutal situations and their consequences in real and symbolic death, strengthened the culture of denial, concealment and silence of desire. Trace this history is still a challenge for a large majority of women at the time called for the release of women and revolution technology. The reality of the women in patriarchal cultures, not Western, still we can talk about the naturalization of more violence and limitations.
- What is its intellectual position to the social condition of man in Venezuela and the world?
-Traditional masculinity is being challenged - as femininity-by men who are rethinking how patterns heirs tax. They are also tired of the patriarchal model, which demands a way of being, thinking, feeling and willing. I do not mean those who speak of their changes because they wash dishes or cook, this is something internal, transcendental.
- What are your plans for coming years?
"The plans start with the wishes ... we want to show the work we do at home and out without so many difficulties and limitations and have a theatrical magic grotto. Itziar Elizondo says to put words and statements to the silence is a collective duty and civilization, both in the theater, literature, visual media. I agree.
- Friends or rivals of his fellow theater people?
"Nothing to see. We scored in the rivalry, is an energy drain.
"He said that the women are actresses for their equal social status and sexual Do you agree with that? "What a question
as paradoxical ... Is it biblical books or confessions of the Inquisition?
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