Scenic Design by Leigh Henderson

Teatro Visión (San José, CA), January 2009

By Victor Hugo Rascón Banda

Directed by Elisa Marina Alvarado

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky is inspired by the real life story of Rita Quintero, a Tarahumara woman who, speaking only her native language, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and confined to an insane asylum, unable to communicate with her doctors.

The ritualized round stage space marries the stark aesthetic of the asylum with the natural textures of Quintero’s native land. A projection screen, stretching from edge to edge like a horizon, allows for fluid changes of the space as the story moves from the asylum to Quintero’s memories.