World renowned dramatist Hugo Salcedo returns to Boston and to Ford Hall Forum for an evening of reflection on contemporary violence in his home country of Mexico. In The Three Profiles of Violence in Mexico’s Theatre: Immigration, Femicides, and Homophobia, Salcedo will explore how contemporary Mexican dramatists have chosen to represent violence in their plays.

There will be a short dramatic reading of Salcedo’s play Música de balas “Music to the Sound of Bullets” by New York based actor Dylan C. Wack. Winner of the 2011 National Prize for Dramaturgy, Música is a work that speaks to one of the biggest problems facing Mexico - drug trafficking. In this powerful play, Salcedo shows us a small window into the terrifying reality of this drug war and humanizes and rescues the victims from becoming mere statistics. This performance invites the audience, through a poetic and nostalgic tone, to feel and experience the daily life of its characters, who become ghostly figures that roam through indeterminate spaces, exalting the esthetic fragmentation and, in turn, expressing human frailty.

The evening’s moderator is Iani Moreno, associate professor, History, Language, & Global Culture Department, Suffolk University.

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