Dramas: EN LA PIEL DEL JUICIO

Contemporary drama that begins with a woman being knocked down by a street vendor fleeing the police, and leads a Black lawyer to question his own position on the case.

The play begins with an apparently straightforward court case: the family of a woman knocked down by a street vendor fleeing the security forces wants the person responsible to end up in prison, and to that end they turn to a law firm where Andrés, a Black lawyer with a long and distinguished career, works.

From that case, the drama goes beyond the courtroom and places its protagonist in a tension between his profession, his convictions and his experience as a Black man. The piece raises questions about the position from which one speaks, what it means to defend someone and how far it is possible to separate personal identity from professional decisions. Themes such as migration and the situation of racialised people in society run through the entire production.

Jimmy Castro leads the cast as actor, creator and producer, with a theatre career of more than thirty years at the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, the Teatro Español and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. The dramaturgy and direction are by Denise Duncan, a writer whose work explores identity, memory and the Afro-descendant experience from an Afrofeminist perspective.