Stories are entrusted to storytellers by the elders. But these storytellers are not meant to repeat the narrative verbatim; they are expected to understand these stories and, through them, reflect on what the community needs to hear at any given moment. This temporal gathering, both in and around a story, acknowledges the personal subjectivities... See more

Pero cuando el Teatro le ha llagado a uno en esa forma expeditiva y urgente, como si un telegrama plástico nos hubiese llevado del brazo al proscenio, no debe uno retroceder pase lo que pase, muera quien muera, pues es una ráfaga de nuestro destino la que salda a los que fueron personajes de nuestro alrededor.

My intention is not to convince you which stories are good and which are bad. Rather, I want to show that when one story dominates, it risks exterminating others or doesn’t do justice to the reality it presumes to narrate. Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive. And since stories have a direct impact on reality — to the point that

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