Resumen de Aproximació a les incursions i apostes frontereres en els espectacles d’Angélica Liddell
The present paper aims to underline the evolution of the stage director, Angélica Liddell, with regards to her contribution in territorial, linguistic and artistic borders and to analyse how her theatre unveils the diversity of particular realities, giving them critical, documentary and plausible form. This paper will try to establish a relationship between the plurality of languages (Spanish, German and French) and nationalities (Spanish, Arabian, Mexican and Chinese) and thematic contents and characteristic expressive forms in her works. In a preliminary overview we sense an evolution in the director’s incursions into the concept of border. Her later works show a clearer attempt at overcoming nationalist, territorial and racial differences in her productions:• Y los Peces salieron a combatir contra los hombres (2003): denouncing immigrationrelated situations, for example, documentary data on dead immigrants attempting to reach Spain• Perro muerto en tintoreria (1999–2006): featuring an Arab actress, Nasima, who pronounces a speech on the concept of Europe from a Muslim point of view.• La casa de la fuerza (2009): filled with Mexican folklore, music and wardrobe as well as the testimonies of women in Ciudad Juárez.• Maldito sea el hombre que confía en el hombre (2011): using 25 French words it is an emotional literacy course for the audience and the expressive integration of oriental artistic disciplines by a team of Chinese acrobats. The conceptual and aesthetic treatment of these four pieces that engage Arab and Mexican actresses to represent the roles of these women in their social, cultural and political context illustrates how this idea of Europe, which is almost utopian, conditions the viewthat others have of this continent and how, through this same otherness, the representation that arises is conditioned by the non-European, which helps to create a European identity: the idyllic perception of Europe from a non-European point of view.
