MI MADRE Y EL DINERO

For over sixty years, Josefina Orlaineta worked in more than forty jobs in Campeche in southern Mexico; her son Anacarsis moved to Mexico City and found his way to the theater and to his identity as a gay man. Now Josefina has one more job: she is on stage with her son in her own story. Adorably, with a lot of charm and humor, she reviews her jobs and reveals her sales techniques and survival strategies while stuffing sausages on stage - as if she were filling the scenes with memories. Anacarsis Ramos sensitively questions his mother and expands the intimate dialog into a clever reflection on the realities of economic survival, class and theater itself. Josefina also has convincing ideas for improving the precarious working situation in the theater. And when Ramos groans about Europeans' preference for documentary theater and the importance of his mother as a self-promoter, the play lands in the middle of the present. The fact that Josefina, as in her other jobs, also manages to get by in the theater is one of the qualities of this profound and entertaining documentary play.