La Terre entre les mondes

There are peaceful regions in Mexico—the ones farthest from the United States and closest to God, or so they say. There, between a Mayan village and the vast plains covered with soybeans—which were once forests—at the foot of a cross that no longer bears Christ, two young girls are digging a hole for a ghost.

The darker-skinned one, Cecilia, is Maya and lives in the village with her father, who speaks to himself as he prays for rain. The fair-haired one, Amalia, barely younger, belongs to a European religious congregation that works the land and lives cut off from the world. She has never seen beyond the plantations; she longs for oceans and trees.

Surrounding them are a jealous sister, a missing mother, a dead woman who refuses to die, and gods—whether prayed to or fallen. Through Cecilia and Amalia, two worlds gaze upon one another, both confronted by the unapologetic intrusion of the modern technological world.

A delicate yet powerful play about disappearance (of people, cultures, and the natural environment), about the magical world of beliefs, about the vital force of youth, and one that strives to give voice to spoken languages and their beauty as living connections.