Transforming An Octavio Paz Poem Into Theatre

“Heavily influenced by Surrealist imagery, and laden with references to Mesoamerican and Greco-Roman myths, Paz’s 1957 poem is a rapturous, metaphysical rumination on erotic life forces and the search for an authentic self (or selves) within other people, other cultures and the flow of time and history.” The performance aims to “immerse audiences in Paz’s … universe.”