In Mexico, one does not come out poor

All festivals are creative and playful spaces where very diverse proposals coincide that are difficult to see in the regular seasons of theaters. Differences that not only have to do with their artistic quality, but with the objective, with the capacity to produce emotions, to reflect ourselves and the society in which we live or even simply to entertain us, but also with the means of production to bring them to life and which often reflect other cultural and economic differences. It was only two days ago that the Fabià Puigserver hall of the Teatre Lliure received Florentina Holzinger, one of the stars of European radicality, with a show (Ophelia’s got talent) in which nothing was spared and where even a life-size helicopter appeared. And three days later in the small Espai Lliure a Mexican company brought us a simple but committed political view on the perversion of the capitalist system in Mexico, extensible throughout depressed societies in the line of what the writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano analyzed and denounced in Las venas abiertas de América Latina.My mother and money raises the difficulty, or almost the impossibility, for the lower classes outside the privileged West to access a dignified life, despite working tirelessly. This is the real case of Josefina Orlaineta, mother of actor and playwright Anacarsis Ramos. Why, at 66 years old and having worked all her life, does my mother live in poverty?, Ramos asks himself. And that's why he convinced her to explain her life experience with work and money. So, the enterprising Josefina added acting to her work history with more than forty commercial initiatives. And what ease she displays! As if she had been doing it all her life.

My mother and the money is a drama. Rather, a tragedy, as we have said extrapolable, but presented with sincerity, humor and lucidity. Theatrically, well seasoned with images and with direct actions like the making of sausages friendly that come to the spectators. It does not seek compassion. But there is a contained rage. The performance received the most enthusiastic applause we have heard so far at the Grec 2026.