Isaac Gómez’s one-woman play The Way She Spoke, now in production at Undermain Theatre in Deep Ellum, is built around interviews Gómez conducted in Juárez,...
, opens with the Actress meeting with Gómez after a frustrating audition. The three white guys at the audition, she says while changing clothes, believed she could only play maids andGigi Cervantes as "The Actress" looking at the script of Isaac Gómez's one-woman show "The Way She Spoke" at Undermain Theatre.
Undermain’s designers — Scott Osborne on set and props, sound by Paul Semrad and lighting by Steve Woods — create a subtle atmosphere that complements Gómez’s descriptions of the streets, people and moods of Juárez. Gigi Cervantes as "The Actress" in Undermain Theatre's production of playwright Isaac Gómez's "The Way She Spoke."Street sounds creep in, and the imposing columns in, once considered an impediment, have rarely been used better, in this case for graffiti and fading corporate logos.
Cervantes frequently moves around the stage, sitting at first in a chair at a table, later on a wood box and then standing behind a lectern on which the script is propped. A tire, barrels and concrete blocks are lined up along a black backdrop, which toward the end of the play is revealed to be a scrim. Behind it are haunting symbols of the murders you won’t be able to get out of your mind.
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