To Each His Frida

*At Xcaret Park`s Open Theater

Ofelia medina presents Cada quien su Frida [To Each His Frida]

**Song, humor and irony the evenings of October 30th and 31st  

By Alejandra Flores

By Way of Fridonia or To Each His Frida, is the play Mexico`s Grande Dame of theater, Ofelia Medina, will present on October 30th and 31st during the 3rd Life and Death Traditions Festival, Xcaret 2008.

There, to the murmur of the Underground River and enveloped in the Open Theater`s natural cave at Xcaret, we will enjoy Ofelia Medina on stage personifying Frida Kahlo: her life, her work, her myth, her mysteries, her voice, her black humor, her irony, her song to life.  And no one better than Ofelia Medina to bring her to life, to make her speak, sing, laugh and, as always, bring her the recognition of the audience.  Yes, there`s no one like La Medina to bring us La Kahlo to seduce us and allow us to gradually penetrate her times, her paintings, her convictions as an activist, her womanly passions.

Without a doubt this is one show whose living nature will make words dance, play, have fun and get drunk with revelry; a production where there`s time to sing La cama piedra, Por un amor, or La Tequilera. A stage set for jokes and finding the laughter in pain, in broken hearts, in loneliness, in fear; a happy pretext to enjoy fireworks that are, at one and the same time, life and death.

By Way of Fridonia or To Each His Frida is a theater production with history.  Premiering first in 2000, its staging is based on the traditions of Popular Yucatecan Regional Theater, where the sketches and songs embroider the fabric of the play with cross stitch like the native Mayan women`s hipiles.

Based on texts taken from Frida Kahlo`s diaries and fragments of Cuban author Loló de la Torriente`s book `Memories and Reasoning of Diego Rivera`, By Way of Fridonia or To Each His Frida has been presented in the United States, France and Mexico.