Incendios
Posted
on August 26, 2011 - by Heather
The play Incendios (Fires)
will be staged at a Mexico City theater from Aug. 12 to
Oct. 2, co-produced by Mexican actor Diego Luna. On
August 5th Luna announced at a press conference the new
season for the play, to be produced by his company Mueca
Producciones.
The venture is a “deeply emotional trip,” Luna said at
the Shakespeare Forum in the Mexican capital, where he
announced that the play is being directed by Hugo
Arrevillaga.
Incendios was previously staged in Mexico in
2009, the actor said, adding that one of the main
incentives for directing this play was his love for his
mother and children.
“The experience I had when I saw it gave me the energy
to go on with this – it’s a very powerful work, it’s
impossible not to connect with this story of a mother’s
love for her children, and the love of some children for
their mother. It makes me rethink all my relationships,
beginning with the most important: the absence of my
mother and my relationship with my children,” he said.
Incendios, based on the philosophical drama by
French Canadian-Lebanese playwright Wadji Mouawad, tells
the story of Julia and Simon, who, after the death of
their mother, undertake a search for their father amid
the chaos of the war in Lebanon.
Asked whether he has plans to get back into movies, the
actor said that right now he wants to enjoy the theater
and added that he is working on a children’s theater
production.
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