Event
Blackface y otras vergüenzas performance at The Clemente
Venue: The Clemente • 107 Suffolk Street
PROMOTIONAL CODE: PROMOMLK5
Tickets are $30, free for our members with a $5 donation for Teatro LATEA (Latin American Theater Experiment Associates).
BLACKFACE y otras Vergüenzas
When: Wednesday February 26 @ 7 PM
Where: Teatro Latea @ The Clemente
Director: Silvia Albert Sopale
Language: Spanish
As part of the 2025 eMeLeK Festival, join us for the theater production of BLACKFACE y otras Vergüenzas. This play is the second one woman spectacle produced by No es País Para Negras Theater Company. The Company’s name refers to the title of the first show by playwright, director and actor Silvia Albert Sopale, “No es país para negras”. Blackface dwells on white folks who paint their faces black to caricature black folks. A practice believed to have originated in nineteenth century “minstrel” shows in the United States originally harks back to “Siglo de Oro” Spain (Spanish Golden Age, 1492-1700), where black characters were initially mocked. This critique of the “official history” of Afro descendants in Spain, enables the public to experience how that history conditions Spanish society’s perception of blackness.
About the Director:
Silvia Albert Sopale is our Spring 2025 KJC Chair, Spanish Afrodescendant actress, writer, and cultural organizer. Born in San Sebastián, she currently resides in Barcelona and performs in Spanish and Catalan. She is a member of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain, the founder and director of Periferia Cimarronas, the first Black theater in Spain, as well as the founder of Hibiscus, the Association of Afro-Spanish and Afrodescendents, and director of the Black Barcelona Festival. She is also the founder of Tinta Negra, a collective advocating for racial diversity in performing arts, and a member of t.i.c.t.a.c. (Workshop for Critical Transfeminist Antiracist Combative Interventions). She is the creator of: No es país para negras (2014), Blackface y otras vergüenzas (2019), Parad de pararme (2021), Cuentos desde la Periferia (2023), Mahmud y no solo Mahmud (2023) and Lotö, Un ritual de emancipación corporal (2024).