Oct 12-21 Teatro Paraguas presents Poesia de Mexico

…a poetry tribute at Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe on October 12-21, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00 pm and Sundays at 2:30 pm.

Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and students, Sunday pay-what-you-wish
Info/reservations: 424-1601

 Teatro Paraguas presents Poesia de Mexico, a poetry tribute performance with eight actors performing some of the best of Mexican poetry of the last five centuries in Spanish, accompanied by projected English translations and live music. 

The tribute begins with the poetry of Nezahualcoyotl which was written in Nuahuatl, and ends with the last poem of Javier Sicilia, whose innocent son was murdered in the drug wars in Mexico last year. 

El mundo ya no es digno de la palabra nos la ahogaron adentro como te asfixiaron, como te desgarraron a ti los pulmones... y el dolor no se me aparta sólo queda un mundo por el silencio de los justos, sólo por tu silencio, y por mi silencio, Juanelo.

Poetry by Sor Juan de Ines, Amado Nervo, Octavio Paz, and Jaime Sabines and others is also included in the program. Poesia de Mexico is the ninth production in Teatro Paraguas' Poetry Tribute Series, which began with a tribute to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in 2004.