Ciudad Juárez, is considered the most dangerous city in the world. From 1993 hundreds of women have disappeared and have been found brutally murdered as part of a cruel phenomenon called feminicide. Most of these women work in factories or manufacturers throughout the state of Chihuahua. I decided to set Fuente Ovejuna in this context as I wondered where Laurencia’s (as the protagonist of Lope de Vega’s play) voice as a woman would most uplift women and men in the 21st century. Fuente Ovejuna represents not only the recognition of the female voice against oppression, but the assimilation and collective guilt of silencing a social drama.
In our interpretation of the story, farm workers become maquiladora workers, the musicians become a marichi trio and the land-owner becomes a ruthless drug dealer. The monarchic role is replaced by the voice of the Mexican president, who acts as a deux ex machina, watching and silencing everything.
This is my first professional show and since then I have created a team of young professionals like myself, working together to shed light on issues like this, which are often disregarded by mainstream news and media. 

Lucía Miranda, director

Opening at the Thalía Theatre of Nueva York, United States, December 2010
90 minutes long
16 yrs+

Co-produced by: 

With the collaboration of:

Production Concept and directed by Lucía Miranda
Dramaturgy by Sergio Adillo

Sergio Adillo, Ferrán Arís, Melinna Bobadilla, Andrés Martínez, Efraín Rodríguez, Laura Santos, María-Itzel Siegrist, Victoria Tapias Guzmán
Mariachi Flor de Toloache
Mireya Ramos: musical director, vocals and violin
Shae Fiol: vocalista, guitar and vihuela
Verónica Medellín: guitarrón

Light designer: Fabricio Saquicela
Sound space: Déborah Gross
Choreographer: Mario Bermúdez Gil
Stage Fight: Amos Marguiles and María Itzel Siegrist
Management in Spain: Verónica Parizzi
Educational Projects: Itziar Alonso
Poster designer: La Industria Visual 
Photographers: Isabel Cádenas, Valentina Ricardi and Cecilia Vallejo

It’s surprising that an unknown group of young artists from different countries not only perform in a singular way a drama of Lope, but also represent a concept of ethnic globalization applied to the world of theatre. Its theatre of denunciation, like that of the past.
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laverdad.es

El arrullo del mariachi en vivo Flor de Toloache, la entrega de los actores en el escenario y la locura cuerda de la directora en su meritorio debut en las tablas, ‘De Fuenteovejuna a Ciudad Juárez’ se llevó el respeto y los halagos de la ‘Capital del Mundo  
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Vip Latino

From Fuente Ovejuna to Ciudad Juárez astonished Salamanca’s audience. The show left the public speechless. The wonderful staging, the adaptation so well elaborated and the cultural diversity on the stage were a perfect tandem to making the production a success
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El Adelanto de Salamanca

This production oozes with a primordial energy. It has a certain magic and its director an instinct for risk-taking.
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El País

It’s theatre of today, brave, socially relevant and politically committed. With an extraordinary quality.

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Huelva Información

Lope has the moment well-calculated; Lucia too. Just in the moment of doubt, the show explodes. And you are unclear where the village ends and audience begins because everything is party, music
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Klout

And that is how, without a doubt, one of the best productions that the Latino Theatre of New York has seen in many years finishes. With only three old benches for a set, an impeccable light design, an impressive emotional world created by the actors, and a risky creativity from the director and a moving and critical message, Fuenteovejuna is more relevant today than ever.
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Univisión

Lope de Vega regresa con la violencia en Ciudad Juárez. ¿Qué tienen que ver un pueblo del sur de la España de finales del siglo XV con el Ciudad Juárez de hoy? 
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BBC

La violencia de Ciudad Juárez, en palabras de Lope de Vega. Una obra de Lope de Vega para denunciar ante la comunidad internacional la violencia que existe en Ciudad Juárez. Pero, ¿qué tienen en común Fuente Ovejuna y la urbe mexicana? 
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El Mundo

Todos a una desde Valladolid. Si Estados Unidos es la tierra de las oportunidades, Nueva York permite soñar. Y en ocasiones, los sueños se convierten en realidad. Éste es el caso de Lucía Rodríguez Miranda (Valladolid, 1982) artífice de The Cross Border Project, un proyecto multicultural 
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El Día de Valladolid

Lope de Vega hace justicia en Ciudad Juárez. Ciudad Juárez es, desde la década de los noventa, uno de los lugares más peligrosos del mundo. Una urbe en la que hay libertad para violar
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El Cultural

Lope de Vega explica la brutalidad de Ciudad Juárez. El teatro siempre ha aspirado a cambiar o, al menos, influir en el mundo. Lo intentaron los personajes de ‘Fuenteovejuna’, de Lope de Vega, enfrentándose al abuso de poder 
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El Norte de Castilla

Las mujeres reinterpretan a los clásicos en Almagro 
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Mujer Hoy

Todas a Una 
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Yo Donna

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