El teatro de José Dimayuga y la vida nueva

Abstract

José Dimayuga explores the impositions on the lives of his protagonists in Affectionately, her Midwife (1992) and Orders of the Heart (2005). The encounter of the female characters with queer agents generates a reflection about the condition of women in the works. Utterance in the first person and the queer person’s intrusion allow questioning the self, the home and the world from the present and from memory. Within the frameworks of theatrical semiotics and autobiographical theory, Dimayuga’s works are presented as a reflection about identity and freedom, because characters eventually recognize themselves as makers of their own destiny.