Performance in the Image and Likeness of the ‘Indecent’
The Gospel According to Saint Rita by Ana Francis Mor
Abstract
The present text offers a critical analysis of the subversive strategies articulated in the play El evangelio según Santa Rita by Ana Francis Mor. Methodologically speaking, this study centers Mor’s piece at the crossroads between theatricality, religion, “Mexicanness” and re-presentation, and, using performance studies, “identity politics” and “indecent theology” as a platform, it highlights the ways in which the play deconstructs and reconfigures the patriarchal religious-political Mexican imaginary. Also, aligned with the feminist and queer tone of the plot, this research underscores the epistemic strength of the performance as a means to textually and visually ‘pervert’ the Bible by embodying it in a particular sex, gender and sexual preference.
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