By Tiziano Cruz

at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, co-presented by frank theatre company production

Directed and Performed by Tiziano Cruz

January 27-28 at 7:30pm, January 29 at 2pm, 2023

The Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC

Tiziano Cruz puts himself front and centre in this performative monologue, based on a series of letters he wrote to his mother in 2020. Cruz’s mother lives in northern Argentina, and he was unable to travel there from his home in Buenos Aires during the first pandemic lockdown. Reaching her across boundaries of geography and class, Cruz uses the letters as the starting point for a critique of economic, racial and institutional oppression.

As an Indigenous artist, Cruz speaks about the suffering his people have endured under a system of white supremacy, examining the role Buenos Aires plays in Argentina’s culture of inequality. Using the power of theatre and the precision of language, Cruz poses a difficult question: What does it mean for him to use his body for art in a country where bodies like his are not supposed to exist?

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Artistic Team

General Direction, Playwright and Performer: Tiziano Cruz

Proofreading: Hugo Miranda Campos

Sound Composition, Design, Programming and Production: Luciano Giambastiani

Video Design: Matías Gutiérrez

Lighting Design: Matías Ramos

Photography: Mariano Barrientos

Art Direction: Uriel Cistaro

Artistic Collaboration: Rodrigo Herrera 

Production: Luciana Iovane

Executive Production: Ulmus Gestión

Cultiral Art Direction & Costume Design: Uriel Cistaro

Costume Design: Vega Cardozo, Luisa Fernanda and Luciana Iovane

International Relations & Management: Cecilia Kuska (ROSA studio)

A coproduction between ULMUS Gestión Cultural, FIBA 2022 – Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Rojas – Secretaría de Relaciones Institucionales, Cultura y Comunicación de la UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Arte en Barrios – Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.