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About the play:
…and the Creator made light, the mountains, the oceans. He created Man and
much more. Peace reigned. One day he said “Let there be Woman” and then
there was no longer peace for man, for the mountains, or for God. A satiric
comedy recommended for all the Gods!
Notes from the playwright: “Let There Be Woman” is a farce that, through the lens of
humor, seeks to call attention to the traditional roles of patriarchal
society with the “holy” help offered by the Bible and the role it prescribes
for women.
It is through man and his divine excuse we see, with
malicious complicity, the character of this new being, of this woman should
be “strong, capable of doing anything, but who should believe herself as
delicate as a rose petal, so she would ignore her strength”, who, at the
same time should be “brave, decisive, able to carry a heavy load, but who
should believe herself to be as timid as a lamb so that she would ignore her
power”, who definitely must be “intelligent, able to serve efficiently, but
who should believe herself slow as a hen, so she would ignore her
reasoning.” The result of this machiavellian mixing of interests doesn’t
always (fortunately) reflects these propositions, and each day women free
themselves from these strange commandments, whether of godly or human
design, that discriminate and diminish, to claim their right to exist,
albeit with permission and threats.
Koldo
About the author:
Juan Carlos Campos Sagaseta de Ilurdos “KOLDO”, was born in Pamplona (in the
Basque region of Spain) in 1954 and became a naturalized citizen of the
Dominican Republic in 1982. He has written: “El Aplaudidor”, “El Rey Necio”
and “La Verdadera Historia del Descubrimiento de América”, which was
recently acclaimed in the 4th International Festival of Hispanic
Theater presented by Teatro de la Luna. As a poet, he has published:
“Desahogos, Blasfemias y Observaciones”, “Miermelada” and “The Chusma
Herald”, receiving for this last piece the First Prize in the International
Poetry Contest Gregorio Aguilar Barrera, Nicaragua, 1984. He has also
written pieces for café-theater, and has published under the headings “En el
País de las Maravillas” and “Cronopiando”, compilations of press columns
from “El Nacional” of the Dominican Republic.
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