Mi madre y el dinero

In 1965, Josefina Orlaineta, the mother of Anacarsis Ramos, secured his first job in the state of Campeche (Mexico), where she was born. She was 5 years old.

Over the next six decades, Josefina held more than forty jobs, in Mexico and Spain, and witnessed the poverty and environmental disasters that made Campeche one of the most impoverished places in Mexico. Oil was a promise of prosperity for the Mexican people made by their government, writes Anacarsis, “but it ended up being a predatory industry that took over the coastline”.

Together with her husband, and after spending two decades in Spain, Josefina returned to Campeche, where they set up businesses designed to alleviate that shortage. Businesses that were ultimately transformed into communal spaces where local residents gather and, within the show, serve as the backbone of the narrative proposed by Anacarsis Ramos.

Mi madre y el dinero emerged from conversations between Anacarsis and Josefina, following a process of theatrical exploration and research.

The playwright, regarded as one of the most authentic and committed voices on the Mexican theatre scene, is attending the Autumn Festival for the first time.

His works are characterised by his use of irony and critical awareness, and the blending of the political and the personal. Ramos, alongside the other founding artists of the Pornotráfico company, uses all the digital and analogue resources and tools at his disposal to create a space for experimentation from which to explore the class struggle.