Review on Blind Mouth Singing
It was an amazing and new experience for me to see a Hispanic fable, Blind Mouth Singing, to be performed on stage by Asian Americans. Surprisingly, it went well. The professional acting kept the originality of the text, and enhanced the theme behind the fable. The play pulled me into the world of a rural Latino village in Cuba, where a series of struggle for personal identity and self-worthiness were presented. The conservative “Mother of the Late Afternoon” rejects to changes, and rules her family with strictness, designed to thwart her boy’s hopes and dreams. Her two sons, Gordi, an irrational and rebellious rough rouge, and Reiderico, a sensitive, gentle, caring gay boy who is too logical and ends up retreating into his own world by talking to his alter-ego who lives at the bottom of the well, attempt to survive in the stifling boredom of the house. It is interestingly enough to see different personalities direct each character to go onto different life paths at the end. Blind Mouth Singing provides the audiences with a rich atmosphere and an open space in which one relates to his or her own experiences and starts to explore the inner self.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
This goes back to the idea that the performing arts is more flexible in that its open to interpretation by its directors and actors…in this case the director chose Asian American actors for a fable of another ethnicity.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Oh wow, this very cool, right? Hehehe, an Asian playing the role of a Latino. Pretty cool, ha? Was Blind Mouth Singing the title of the fable? Yeah, just wondering where this took place. Was it at a Asian or a Latino theater? From what I’ve read this work must have been very melodramatic, hehehe.