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Lesbian Visibility Day on Ibiza: An essential story “bringing awareness to diverse love”

The theater project Ibiza Arts begins its journey with 'Beca y Eva dicen que se quieren', a play written by playwright Juan Luis Mira Candel starring Julia Marí and Natasha Prokhorova. The event has been organized by the Consell de Ibiza and the SAI as part of the celebration for Lesbian Visibility Day

The play ‘Beca y Eva dicen que se quieren’ (Beca and Eva say they love each other), which Ibiza Arts premieres for the first time on the island to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day, captures the spectators in the auditorium of Cas Serres, in Vila from the first moment. The vast majority are students, about 200 from the Sa Blanca Dona highschool and 5 from the classroom of Transición a la Vida Adulta de Sa Serra, and are more or less the same age as the protagonists. Undoubtedly, this detail allows the script to reach them easily and they can empathize with these two 17-year-old girls, who love each other with the dedication and conviction of first loves and who have to face the ignorance of part of the society that surrounds them. The dialogues, agile and direct, and the skilled interpretations by the two young performers, the Russian Natasha Prokhorova and the Ibizan Julia Marí, who is also the director and adapted the script by the playwright Juan Luis Mira Candel, also contribute.

The students of these two high schools in Vila witness how, on the first day of class, during recess, the connection and spark between Beca and Eva emerges, thanks to a sour apple. They listen attentively to Beca’s father’s monologues about May ’68 and her grandmother, who understands and supports her the most. They laugh at Eva’s amusing presentation on albatrosses and penguins for Biology class and at the incident that the couple shares in on their end-of-studies trip to Ireland. They are shocked to hear the “sexist and misogynist” comments of a classmate or with the scolding that the head of studies reprimands Eva for exhibiting her love in public. They also become emotional when they discover that Beca is sick and smile with satisfaction when the two young women finally decide to enter the classroom hand in hand, making their relationship public.

“What a beautiful story. It is a good play, it has awakened something in me”, comments a student of Sa Blanca Dona in the discussion after the performance coniciding with Lesbian Visibility Day.

Theatre and Lesbian Visibility Day

There are a few questions that the students ask the actresses, and not all of them have to do with the central message of the play, created to make homosexual relationships visible and normalized.

For the full article, please visit Diario de Ibiza website here.

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