THE WAILING WOMAN/LA LLORONA, Whole Art Theater Company, at the Blue Rider Theatre. Dear Whole Art Theater cast and crew: Just a few words from your director on opening night. Let me first highlight the 500-year-old Mexican myth we’ll be performing. La Llorona falls in love with a conquistador and bears his children. He plans to abandon her and take their children back to Spain. Rather than lose the children she murders them. It is said her weeping can be heard to this day.
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(2) Deliver every line as if it were written in italics or capital letters.
(7) If you’re having trouble reaching an extreme emotion, banalize it. Your lover has forsaken you? Act like you have indigestion. You’re showing off your new baby to friends? Imagine it’s a shiny new toaster. Or an espresso machine, maybe a Krups. You really love it.
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