Ep. 7: Madre by Beatriz Pizano, Part 2
April 4, 2019
Guilt. Memory. A mother and daughter battle against Alzheimers in a country at war.
Madre is a theatrical memoir that follows Julia de Maria Auxiliadora, an aging woman in Colombia who is fighting to maintain a sense of self as she succumbs to Alzheimer’s. As Julia’s lifetime of memories unravels, her adopted daughter Angela returns from Toronto to care for her, and to make one last desperate attempt to resolve their conflicted relationship while Julia still recognizes her.
This is second instalment of our presentation of Madre, by Beatriz Pizano. This episode is also available in Spanish. New episodes are released every Saturday. Subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts.
The story so far:
Julia is deteriorating rapidly, and she can’t distinguish dreams, reality, and the memory land. When her daughter Angela finally arrives in Medellín, she finds Julia’s apartment in a terrible state and realizes that something is terribly wrong.
Credits:
Marcia Benett as Julia
Kim Nelson as Angela
Margarita Valderrama as the young Julia
Carlos Diaz as Jorge + the Cab driver
Rosalba Martinni as Donna Anna + the female Doctor
Monica Garrido as Leonila / Secretary / TV Announcer
Augusto Bitter as the male Doctor / Doorman
Dramaturgy by Emma Tibaldo
Direction by Carlos Diaz
Original sound Design by Thomas Ryder-Payne
New music by Marcelo Puente
Production, editing, and additional sound design by Charles Ketchabaw and Aidan McMahon
Translation and Script co-ordination by Bruce Gibbons Fell
Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Metcalf Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, The City of Toronto, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and Playwrights Workshop Montreal’s Glassco translation residency in Tadoussac.
Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Camila Diaz-Varela and Monica Garrido.
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Photo of Anita LaSelva and Carlos Gonzalez-Vio by Trevor Schwellnus.