ABSTRACT
This chapter will explore how contemporary Latinx theatre and performance redefine testimonio as a modality for performance and theatrical storytelling as seen through the prism of my experience as a Chicana performer, writer, and voice practitioner, as well as my relationship with silenced memories. I will draw from two of my original works, La Casa de Inez and Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido, to offer examples of contemporary Latinx theatre and performance as testimonio. This chapter will posit that testimonio as contemporary Latinx theatre and performance is an embodied storytelling tool to not only re-imagine history and to perform cultural remembrance, but it is itself an archive that centers these stories in the collective memory of our community and exists in resistance to the continued exclusion of our stories from United States history.
