From Tartarus

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Sergio López Vigueras

A long monologue created for the stage by the theatre collective Teatrosinparedes, Tartarus premiered in Mexico City in the spring of 2021. Performed by Bernardo Gamboa and directed by David Psalmon, the text was written by Sergio López Vigueras (Mexico City, 1985), an award-winning dramatist and lighting and scenic designer. A complex blend of metaphor and vulgarity, beauty and brutality, this elliptical dramatic poem exposes us to the very real Tartarus of present-day Mexico with the story of a young boy who is drawn by poverty and later greed into the world of the narcos and whose only possible destiny is a violent death at the hands of his masters. The following fragments have been excerpted from López Vigueras’s monologue.

Jacqueline Bixler

Jacqueline Bixler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech, is the author of Convention and Transgression: The Theatre of Emilio Carballido (1997) and co-editor of Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performance (2009). Since 2013, she has served as editor of the Latin American Theatre Review.