The Way She Spoke
by Isaac Gómez

Name: The Way She Spoke
Brand: Isaac Gómez
SKU: 9780573709203
Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

75 mins Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings

Synopsis

A haunting and theatrical one-woman play, The Way She Spoke travels from a New York stage to the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico, where thousands of women have been murdered in an epidemic of violence that has yet to stop.

Written by Isaac Gómez based on his intimate interviews, the play is a raw and riveting exploration of responsibility: one playwright's journey to give voice to a city of women silenced by violence, fear and a world that has turned a deaf ear to their stories.

Press Reviews

"Isaac Gomez has drawn from interviews with real women to expose just how terrifying life in Juárez has become. It is riveting theater... Gomez’s script is a brilliant, tragic book of the dead."
— New York Theatre Guide

"At first, the terrific solo show The Way She Spoke seems simple... Gomez’s play picks its way carefully among genres: It’s half memoir, half fiction, half documentary, half memorial. That’s too many halves—there’s too much play here. But that’s because there is no appropriate response other than surfeit of anguish, of pity, of rage."
— TimeOut NY

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
The Actress Mexican (not Puerto Rican, not Colombian, not Cuban, not Dominican, not Brazilian, not Ecuadorian, not Argentinian, not Chilean, not Guatemalan, not Peruvian, not Salvadorian, not Guatemalan, not Honduran – she is Mexican. Or of Mexican descent. Or Mexican American. Tejana. Chicana.)Can be as young as early twenties, and as old as late fifties. She plays fifteen different roles (including herself and the playwright), and every character she embodies is Mexican. So to best ensure that differentiation in inflection, characterization, speech pattern, and physical characterization reflects the breadth, depth and differentiation of Mexican people, THE ACTRESS must be Mexican.Please cast accordingly.	female	—	Mexican (not Puerto Rican, not Colombian, not Cuban, not Dominican, not Brazilian, not Ecuadorian, not Argentinian, not Chilean, not Guatemalan, not Peruvian, not Salvadorian, not Guatemalan, not Honduran – she is Mexican. Or of Mexican descent. Or Mexican American. Tejana. Chicana.)Can be as young as early twenties, and as old as late fifties. She plays fifteen different roles (including herself and the playwright), and every character she embodies is Mexican. So to best ensure that differentiation in inflection, characterization, speech pattern, and physical characterization reflects the breadth, depth and differentiation of Mexican people, THE ACTRESS must be Mexican.Please cast accordingly.