Play: Antígona González with Marina de Tavira

Marina de Tavira (México) stars in this play in which she plays Antígona González, a character who, just like Sophocles’ Antigone, has lost her younger brother, and seeks him in order to give him a burial. In doing so she faces threats, fears, social prejudices, family division and impotence. The work is a stage adaptation of the book of the same name by Sara Uribe, which reflects the reality of forced disappearances in Mexico. In the words of Tavira, “recently Mexico reached the official figure of a hundred and thirty thousand disappeared. This means that nearly a million people are living through horror, every day; the horror of Antígona González”.