ABSTRACT
In early 1997, Alejandra Medellín, a director from Mexico, staged Colombian playwright Enrique Buenaventura’s La maestra/The Schoolteacher as a class project with students at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The performance of this one-act play, which forms part of the dramatic cycle Documentos del Infierno/Documents from Hell, became a place of encounters and translations of several languages, distant realities, different worlds. It became a meeting place for actors, educators, and theorists from Canada, Mexico, Estonia, and Malta as they crossed the disciplinary borders of theater and performance. The play became a shared space, where meaning-making was always being realized in the glimpses between us and our experiences, as resonances occurred and questions continually arise.
