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Rogelio Orizondo

Rogelio Orizondo

Lili Renteria´s ideal country

I’m talking / meeting Lili Renteria in a small table of a Pain de Paris. When she saw Antigonon, an epic contingent, began crying, paralyzed in the chair, and told me: this is very strong. I feel the same sensation when before her. How can I capture her? And I see Lilian Llerena, with a text of Electra: "How can a twenty years girl dare with light?" Because in the eyes with tears of her daughter, is the same question. How can I dare / make you mourn Lili? Lili is a rope that passes through that historic moment of the premiere of Electra Garrigó - through her mother, she goes through top ranking shows of Roberto Blanco - who was also at the premiere , and transcends Cuban borders from here and there, to land ¨Ana en el tropico¨ at Trianon theatre. She believes much in the stars. I want to raise my head and see her in ¨Mariana¨, tied to the tail of a horse, to the stage machinery of Mella theatre, to the painful history of a country. And then the rope is broken and there is no dead on the gallows. The gallows is a fiction,...