In early 1963, cornered by cold, love disappointment, financial problems, motherhood and her own obsessions, Sylvia Plath decides to end with her life. She has just written her best poems, later gathered by Ted Hughes in the book ‘Ariel’. An icy morning during English February, she fixes breakfast, some toasts and butter, and milk for her two children, still asleep. She locks herself in the kitchen, blocks all ventilation, opens the oven gas and kills herself. From then on, Plath adds her name to the worshipped literary tradition: the poets maudits. Not long before that, she writes a dramatic poem for the BBC called ‘Three Women’. There, with subtlety, she frees her ghosts about maternity and womanhood. All aspects described here work as starting point for the writing of our ‘Luzazul’. Respecting the structure of ‘Three Women’ but replacing the naming First Voice, Second Voice and Third Voice for Bed #1, #2 and #3, a flow of thought assembles the emotions of one -many- women regarding womanhood in a world dominated by phallocratic imposition. And the specific object of consideration is, in this case, motherhood. Luzazul’s woma(e)n face three possible scenarios in the face of pregnancy: giving birth -not exempted of conflict-, to abort the foetus nesting in her womb, or giving birth to later sacrifice her child, as a response to the violence produced by masculine mandate. These three options don’t seek to impose a moral viewpoint on the subject, but they don’t look away from ethical discussion. Their voices quote Plath at some points but they also invoke other voices, like Macbeth witches, hebrew mythology figure Lilith, Shakespearian Ophelia or fairy-tale princesses. And they do this from the standing point of a great distress, as if it was a litany originated in her deepest being.

Performers
MARÍA INÉS ALDABURU
MARICEL ALVAREZ
GRACIELA ODDONE

Ensemble
PATRICIA GARCÍA, flutes
GRISELDA GIANNINI, clarinets
ELENA BUCHBINDER, violin and viola
GABRIELA GONZÁLEZ CZEREDNIKOW, harp
DANIELA CERVETTO, percussion

Régie interns
AMALIA TERCELAN
PAULA TRIÑANES

Video
SANTIAGO BRUNATI

Choreography and movement
DIANA SZEINBLUM
Costume Designer
BELÉN PARRA
Lighting Design
ALEJANDRO LE ROUX
Stage Photography
SEBASTIÁN ARPESELLA
Associate Composers
VALENTÍN PELISCH (Technical and musical assistance)
SEBASTIÁN POZZI AZZARO (Assistant Director)
Set Designer and Assistant Régie
JULIETA POTENZE
Composer and Musical Director
MARCELO DELGADO
Libretto and Régie
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI


Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, 2013.

Fotos Sebastián Arpesella