Two Destinos plays center women’s experiences: Enough to Let the Light In and Blanco Temblor explore love and loss. | Matt Simonette
, says her play, while a work of fiction, contains numerous autobiographical elements.Blanco TemblorThe play is about Marina del Mar, a Puerto Rican astrophysicist who is living with bipolar disorder and, thanks to a specific birth disorder, is incapable of trembling.depicts meetings between Marina and the people from her life, living and dead, as well as “her transit through the abysses and the lights of her psyche,” according to Teatro Público.
Garcia is a native of Puerto Rico; I spoke with her by phone shortly before she traveled to Chicago for’s debut here. She had relocated to a relative’s home because of the blackouts and damage from Hurricane Fiona.to capture the diversity of her own family, she explains. Garcia’s mother was a creative professional, and her father was a scientist who also was an opera singer.
“He was a crazy man,” she says, laughing. “My mother died of COVID, and my father died after Alzheimer’s. This play is a tribute to my relatives, to the people who made me. I’ve been an artist since I was very little.”“I was so lucky, and I think it was a mission, like an ethical, artistic mission,” she says. “The main character is bipolar and survives a suicide attempt. This is a journey through darkness and into light. It’s not heavy. People will cry a lot, but they will laugh.
“I’m so happy, because the actor who plays Marina [Isel Rodriguez] was a student of mine at university,” Garcia adds. “Now she’s a university professor and a very, very popular actor in Puerto Rico. Most of the people who work with me have been my students. It is an act of love.”’s premiere here and is proud her work is part of Destinos.
“I’m very excited to share this with you guys,” Garcia says. “I know it’s a hard thing. People can think, ‘Oh my God, it’s about mental health?’ But people will enjoy it. It’s a journey, and there’s a lot of love there.”
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