The Way She Spoke

By Isaac Gómez

A playwright confronts the silenced voices of murdered women in Juárez.

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64 pages

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In 'The Way She Spoke,' a playwright embarks on a harrowing journey from New York to Juárez, Mexico, where an epidemic of violence has claimed countless women's lives. Through intimate interviews, she seeks to amplify the silenced voices of these victims, challenging a world that has ignored their plight. As she navigates this dangerous landscape, the play becomes a powerful act of witness and protest. Will her words break through the deafening silence, or will the stories remain unheard? This gripping solo performance blurs the lines between memoir, fiction, and documentary, demanding attention and action.

From the publisher

A haunting and theatrical one-woman play The Way She Spoke travels from a New York stage to the treacherous streets of Juárez Mexico where thousands of women have been murdered in an epidemic of violence that has yet to stop. Written by Isaac Gómez based on his intimate interviews the play is a raw and riveting exploration of responsibility: one playwright’s journey to give voice to a city of women silenced by violence fear and a world that has turned a deaf ear to their stories.”An act of bearing witness… an aching outraged work of vigil protest and inquiry.” - The New York Times”Isaac Gomez has drawn from interviews with real women to expose just how terrifying life in Juárez has become. It is riveting theater… Gomez’s script is a brilliant tragic book of the dead.” - New York Theatre Guide”At first the terrific solo show The Way She Spoke seems simple… Gomez’s play picks its way carefully among genres: It’s half memoir half fiction half documentary half memorial. That’s too many halves-there’s too much play here. But that’s because there is no appropriate response other than surfeit of anguish of pity of rage.” - TimeOut NY

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