Luz Negra (Black Light)

In early 2020, we were approached by the Embassy of El Salvador to stage this play in April 2019, to bring visibility Salvadorean literature, traditions and culture. Unfortunately, the current lockdown made us abandon the original plan to stage the production. However, given the nature of the text’s and its characters, as well as my own experiments with digital theatre, multimedia and augmented storytelling, I am now directing the project as a live performance using Skype and OBS. The fact that the conversation between these two severed heads can be replicated almost perfectly over a two-person video screen, the fade-in and fade-out for character transitions can be controlled using the brightness of our monitors and finally, being able to switch our video background to place the performers in a dilapidated 17th-century town plaza (or anywhere else for that matter) makes the performance highly compelling to watch, even if it's online.