MI MADRE Y EL DINERO

For over sixty years, Josefina Orlaineta worked more than forty jobs in the southern Mexican city of Campeche; her son Anacarsis moved to Mexico City, where he found theatre and his identity as a gay man. Now Josefina has one more job: she takes the stage alongside her son in a show built from her own life.

With irresistible charm and humour, she walks through her working life, sharing her sales techniques and survival strategies - all while stuffing sausages on stage, as if filling each scene with memories. Anacarsis Ramos questions his mother with great sensitivity, opening up their intimate dialogue into a sharp reflection on economic survival, class, and the nature of theatre itself.

Josefina even has convincing ideas about improving the precarious working conditions in the theatre world. And when Ramos groans about Europeans' fondness for documentary theatre and his mother's role as a self-performer, the piece lands squarely in the present. That Josefina manages to hold her own in theatre - just as she did in every other job - is one of the many strengths of this thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining documentary theatre piece.