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Retrato hablado by Juan Villoro

Stage director: Arturo Beristain

Artistic director: Enrique Singer

Retrato hablado is a play by Juan Villoro, and directed by Arturo Beristáin, in which the texts by the poet Ramón López Velarde are brought back. This happens during a conversation while two of his students, Matilde Toranzo and Dolores Baeza, wait for the poet to celebrate his 33rd birthday and do his portrait. While they are waiting for him, Dolores and Matilde bring him to their presence by remembering him through his work. The poet is and is not present; his spirit is there, his soul, as a ghost… The portrait will be a spoken portrait, since he dies on the same day, which stops him from being physically present at the appointment. Velarde visits them secretly to talk about his motivations as a writer in a scene that is inhabited in his memory.

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Juan Villoro

Author | México

Writer and journalist, Juan Villoro was born in Mexico City in 1956. He has been a professor at UNAM, and visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Pompeu Fabra Universities in Barcelona, and at the New Journalism Foundation,...

Compañía Nacional de Teatro

Company | México

With more than thirty plays in its repertoire, the National Theater Company from the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) encourages and develops theatrical projects promoting their performance both domestically and abroad. Given th...

Enrique Singer

Artistic director | México

Artistic Director of the National Theater Company, Enrique Singer studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at UNAM. He was National Theater Coordinator (INBAL) and Theater Director (UNAM) as well as teacher in several theater schools. He has participa...

Arturo Beristain

Scene director | México

With more than fifty years of experience in theater, film, radio and television, Arturo Beristain is an actor, playwright, acting teacher and director of theater, happening and performance. He has participated in more than 100 plays under the directi...

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Ramón López Velarde

June 19, 2021 commemorates the death of Zacatecan poet Ramón López Velarde, who stood out not only for his poetry, but also for his narrative. López Velarde was a fundamental figure in the introduction of literary modernity to Mexico. His poem La Suave Patria, also published posthumously in 1921, is considered a milestone in the history of Mexican poetry. a masterpiece of Mexican literature, which has been studied and analyzed by numerous authors since its publication.

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