DESIRE
posted by James Reel
All the local critics seem to like the bilingual play at Borderlands Theater very much, including me:
The stage is a large, white circle, perhaps of fabric, like a bedsheet. Across it stretches a long, red, rectangular cloth. A man takes up one end of it, a woman the other, and the cloth becomes their connection in a slow dance, the man and woman winding toward and away from each other.You can read the rest of my review, which unlike the play is in English only, here.
This is the first image in Victor Hugo Rascón Banda's El Deseo/Desire, a play directed with intense physicality by Eva Tessler for Borderlands Theater. It is also a recurring image, as through the play the two characters circle each other, tangled in that vibrant red connecting fabric that never truly binds them together.
