The National Autonomous University of Mexico resumes its theatrical activity with a diverse program that seeks to lead the public to reflect on the human condition, with themes about the search for individual freedom in the face of oppressive family and social structures, the impossibility of controlling time and destiny, the weight of collective judgment, grief and faith, as well as the constant question about the place that each person occupies in the world and their ability to transform it.
Programming begins today with The goodbyeby Mireille Bailly, translated and directed by Boris Schoemann, a co-production of Teatro UNAM and Los Endebles, which will be presented until January 24 at the Teatro Santa Catarina (Jardín Santa Catarina 10, Coyoacán), with performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 7 p.m., and Sundays at 6 p.m.
Starring Alejandro Calva, Esther Orozco, Fernando Bueno, Constantino Morán, Pilar Boliver and Emmanuel Pavía, the work unfolds a surreal, acidic and current farce around the desire of a 35-year-old man to leave the family home in the face of parents trapped in their own universe, a situation that overflows with the arrival of a second family of higher socioeconomic level to prepare a wedding, detonating a cry for freedom against a suffocating, sexist and classist
Another of the UNAM Theater productions is We were going to change the worldtext by José Emilio Hernández directed by David Jiménez Sánchez and starring Luis Eduardo Yee, a production by the top studio created by Los Bocanegra and 8m3 that articulates seven apparently unconnected events “from a government organization that accelerates the end of the world to a trip in time to try to modify a single event from the past” to reflect, with humor, melancholy and lucidity, on the impossibility of changing history and the fragility of our decisions.
▲ He byeby Mireille Bailly, begins its season today at the Teatro Santa Catarina. To the right, The eclipsea work that will be presented in the MUAC Auditorium from January 15 to 25.Photo courtesy of Teatro UNAM/Pili Pala
The piece will be staged from January 10 to 24 at the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Forum of the University Cultural Center (Insurgentes Sur 3000, Ciudad Universitaria) with performances from Wednesday to Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m.
Mysterious toy
The sea is a pixelwritten and directed by David Gaitán, will have six performances from January 10 to 18 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. at the Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Theater.
This work places a community in front of a mysterious toy and a public list of names that triggers paranoia, moral judgments and symbolic lynchings, exposing how technology and the collective gaze can amplify fear and violence to the point of overflowing public and private life.
The programming also includes The eclipsewhich places the viewer on a beach in Chiapas in the 90s, where three generations of a family go through prolonged mourning and a crisis of faith and belonging. The work will be presented in the Auditorium of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) from January 15 to 25.
Starting January 17, it will be presented The great theater of the worlda Carro de Comedias 2025 production based on the text by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The stage of the play will be the esplanade of the fountain of the University Cultural Center until February 15.