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3 RESPONSES TO BARRIO 3rd March 2019
Photo courtesy of Susie Safavi

Photo courtesy of Susie Safavi

"After seeing Barrio, I finally understood what going to church on Sundays actually means for so many people. A precious feeling of belonging to a community! I’ve laughed my head off, I’ve been moved to tears, together we’ve encouraged a group of beautiful girls to let go and relish dancing on stage. We’ve sung together, sweated and danced yearning for our homeland, for our culture.  And we’ve done this together. To yearn together is different. We recognise each other together, we bond, and we celebrate. So please, let there be more Barrios on every Sunday!"

Chusi Amorós, audience member, theatre maker and co-founder of 27 Degrees Theatre Company

"Live music, dancing, comedy, poetry, salsa and a pretty fierce Latina drag queen! Last night we turned The Little into a dance floor to celebrate the incredible Latin American community in the Elephant 🐘

Congratulations to everyone involved in BARRIO for a fantastic evening. We loved having you! 🎵🎹🎺🎤"

Southwark Playhouse’s facebook page, 4th March

"I was invited by Mary Ann to take part in Barrio (a Latin American variety night) with a couple of my spoken word poems at Southwark Playhouse which is in Elephant and Castle a place known as the Latinx Neighbourhood, the Washington Heights of London if you will and Southwark Playhouse is the local theatre. I’ve been to that theatre many times to see great plays even a Mexican one, but the audience was mostly British middle class. Southwark wanted to give the Latinxs community a space in their own barrio and l waited expectant to see if they would come so we could tell them, we are creating for you, you’re not invisible, we see you, not the stereotype you, not the caricature you, but the real you. And they came, one by one they walked in and suddenly the theatre became a Fiesta, the British middle class people were still there but they were dancing to cumbia hand in hand with us, for a moment it didn't matter who was from where or who could speak what language, it was electric, and l feel so privileged to have been a part of it."

Ana Torre, actor, playwright and spoken word artist

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