Tinta y mujer

Contemporary theatre show directed by David Boceta, paying tribute to four women writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to the way they thought and wrote within the limits of their era.

This show, directed by David Boceta, is a tribute to the women writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The staging brings back to the stage María de Zayas, Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, Leonor de la Cueva and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, writers and playwrights who worked in a time that allowed them very little room.

On stage, the four of them gather in improvised academies of women to read, write, perform and debate literature, and to share what for centuries they found difficult to pass on. They are joined by another woman who decides to run her own printing press, an unusual step in that context.

The production shows how these creators learned to move within the margins of what was permitted: they projected a submissive image while privately defending their right to think and create, drawing on irony, fiction or literary conventions to say without saying. Their work is presented not as an exception for want of precedents, but because of conditions that made the development and recognition of their talent very difficult. The performance takes place at the Teatro de la Comedia, a Madrid theatre devoted above all to staging plays.