Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 4:00-6:00 PM Modern Theatre, 525 Washington Street, Boston
Acclaimed Mexican playwright Hugo Salcedo will present a lecture titled “A Hermetically Sealed Boxcar…Now After 31 Years of Suffocation”/Un vagón de tren herméticamente cerrado… ya 31 años de asfixia.
The lecture will be followed by an introduction of the U.S.-Mexican border by Prof. Iani Moreno.
Laura Shink will then lead a staged dramatic reading of Salcedo’s play, El viaje de los cantores – “The Troubadours’ Journey” – a series of vignettes showing Mexican men attempting to cross the border into the U.S. and the women they left behind.
The reading will be followed by a discussion with the playwright.
“The Troubadours’ Journey” is based on a true infamous 1987 incident in which 18 Mexican men were horribly suffocated in a locked steel-walled boxcar while attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border. Told in 10 scenes, most of which flash back to and flash forward from the actual event, the play is an impressionistic, nearly religious work lamenting not only the appalling loss of life, but the conditions that led up to it.
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