Tebas Land

Produced as part of Destinos: 5th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival in partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art

Taking the figure of parricide as its central theme, Tebas Land is inspired by the myth of Oedipus, the life of the fourth-century European saint St Martín, and a legal file created and imagined by Blanco in which the trial of a young parricide named Martín Santos is narrated. From the different encounters this young parricide and a playwright who wants to write his story have in a basketball prison court, Tebas Land will gradually concern itself not so much with the reconstruction of the crime, but with the scenic representation of the encounters between the two characters. Thus, the initial question that opens the piece: « how is it possible to kill someone? », will be replaced by the final question: « how is it possible to represent someone? » Tebas Land thus moves away from the ethical dimension of parricide to concentrate on the aesthetic possibilities of its representation and to finally be able to offer us a beautiful thesis on the theatrical event.

On January 31, 2023, it was announced that this production of Tebas Land was nominated for 5 Jeff Awards. The nominations include Short Run-Production, Short Run-Director - Juan Parodi, Short Run-Performer in a Principal Role - Esteban Schemberg, Short Run-Performer in a Principal Role - Tommy Rivera-Vega, and Short Run-Artistic Specialization - Daphne Agosin.