Giovanna di Filippo

Chicana Box.

2021.

With Eva Geckeler.

What frames us, determines our lives?

Who are we when we step out of the box that was designed for us?

Can we play a new game with old rules?

Chicana Box is the story of a young migrant woman  who works in a municipal 
slaughterhouse and has to work the Sunday shift alone.
She talks to herself in order to be less alone among all the mess.
 
By hasard, she finds a chess piece in the intestines of a pork.
Then there is Marquesa, who comes from a completely different time. 
She is the 
last female descendant of a noble family in the Colombian region of Magdalena. 
And locked in her chambers, she begins to remember. 
We tell the story of a game of chess, a meeting. 
Whether this meeting actually takes place or only happens in someone's head is of secondary importance. 
In fact, the two women don't know how to play chess, perhaps they have forgotten, 
perhaps they are playing by their own rules.
But in any case, there is someone else who wants them to play properly. 

Chicana Box is a play about black and white, bottom and top, here and there.