A divine comedy of ham and bondage
O Maria
A Divine Comedy of Ham and Bondage
Inspired by the numerous stories of Marian apparitions in rural Spain, Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba and even scenes from the ballet Giselle, O Maria takes place in a stifling kitchen of 1950's Seville. An unexpected heavenly visitor unleashes a torrent of unquenchable desires for an oddly paired couple: a religious woman with a feeding fetish and her tightly bound husband. Divinely subversive, this kitschy kitchen drama for three dancers upturns all gender expectations to a delicious soundtrack of mambos and flamenco.
“Marvellously unwholesome”
“Perverse, sexy and flamboyant”
Credits
Choreography: Carlos Pons Guerra
Design: Ryan Laight
Lighting: Barnaby Booth
Music: Sara Montiel, Bellini, La Lupe, Adolphe Adam, Pepe Blanco, Lola Flores
Original cast: Marivi Da Silva, Sabrina Ribes Bonet, Joao Maio
DeNada Dance Theatre- dancers Marivi Da Silva, Phil Sanger, Azzurra Ardovini, Fabio Dolce and Antonette Dayrit in O Maria. Photography by Maria Falconer
The Temptation of Mary: scene
Featured
The miracle of the sex change
A little accident happens backstage before O Maria hits Sadler’s Wells
Carlos Pons Guerra speaks to Homotopia about O Maria in its early stages of development
Carlos Pons Guerra reflects on the ages old question