Mercedes Ilarraza
Play
Presenting:
The Dot
On participating in Vagina Festival 2008:
The Vagina Festival is such an important vessel to honor our fortunes and freedom of expression.
I am truly honored to have my play be a part of this mission. In honor of this freedom, my piece, The DOT explores the special bond that all women share: THEIR PERIOD. What if there was a “period store” where all your monthly needs were all met in one place? Chocolates and tampons? Freedom to express how pissed off or how emotional you feel today? All that at THE DOT is a statement. A movement. Women all over the world, regardless of race, culture. Identity, and class all get their period. Cramps are a special bond! What a gift to live in a place where we can discuss out periods if we want to and to have a platform like the Vagina Festival to do it!
Sexuality, body image, personal identity and well-being are all discussed in this play. THE DOT explores this monthly event and breaks through any barriers and opens up discussion on this subject matter. THE DOT is a comedy that depicts the bond and cycle that is so special and unique to all women.
THE DOT celebrates the freedom to say: Yeah! I’m on my period! SO WHAT!
About Mercedes Ilarraza:
First off: thank you to my actors/crew for being a part of THE DOT!
As an actor, director, playwright: I am very passionate about socially conscious issues in many art forms. I want my work to raise awareness and create thought and open dialogue that may not have been easily opened. I feel that us as artists have a responsibility to do this. It’s crucial to take risks and do the unknown, and be "The Trailblazers" in art. I am very passionate of socially conscious forms of expression and dedicate my art forms to this. I have worked on many projects but am most proud of directing a one man show “The Delivery Boy” at La Tea theatre which dives into an immigrants challenges and obstacles, trying to follow his dream while supporting his family’s dreams of him being in the United States.Pello Malo, is a short film I am working on that deals with hair and the issues of race and self concept in the Dominican community. I am also working on a t-shirt line that expresses socially conscious statements and celebrates
freedom in being different!“ A life lived without purpose or value, the kind in which one doesn’t know the reason why one was born is joyless and lack luster. To just live eat and die without any real sense of purpose surely represents a life pervaded by life- state animals. On the other hand, to do, create or contribute something that benefits others, society and ourselves and to dedicate ourselves as long as we live up to that challenge – that is a life of true satisfaction, a life of value. It is humanistic and a loftly way to live”. Daisaku Ikeda
Contact: thedotplay@yahoo.com
Website: www.mercedesilarraza.com, www.thedotplay.com
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