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Vo l . 1 T H E W Y N W O O D T I M E S MAY 2015
By Zinnia Martinez
The theatrical drama “Tattoo of Tears,” (Tatuaje de lagrimas), brutal, archaic family customs. In the end she unwittingly finds
authored by Maria Elena Lavaud, an astute writer and journalist herself yet another casualty to craven judicial power.
with her pulse squarely on Latin America’s paradoxical realities,
was presented on the 14th and 21st of March at The Chill The original text of the monologue stems from the namesake
Concept Museum where it staggered audiences. novel penned by Maria Elena Lavaud, based on the testimony of a
Venezuelan woman.
The insightful play was adapted and directed by television and
theater writer and director, Jose Eduardo Pardo, and brought to The story powerfully relates the history of a contemporary crisis
life on stage by Monica Rubio, an esteemed Venezuelan actress. of endemic proportions. Every 15 seconds in some part of the
world, a woman is attacked or beaten.
Lavaud, whose best-selling titles include “Red Days,” (Dias de
Rojo) and “Havana without Heels,” (La Habana sin Tacones), left a Across the globe, at least one in every three women has been
lingering impression with her unflinching account of an abysmal assaulted, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her
marriage in which a devoted wife’s love was forsaken. It tore lifetime. More often than not, the abuser is a member of her own
back the veil on the true-life tale of a husband who bullied and family and studies suggest that up to ten million children witness
beat his wife into silence leaving her psychologically scarred in some form of domestic violence annually.
the process.
“Tattoo of Tears” narrates the story of Clarissa, a woman who Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—
after suffering two decades of brutal domestic violence, decides more than cancer, car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.
to file a lawsuit against her abusive husband. Seventy percent of women suffer violent attacks during the
course of their lifetimes, the majority at the hands of their
The dreadful consequence of Clarissa’s desperate appeal for partners or spouses.
justice in a court of law is that she becomes further victimized
by her infuriated husband. Afterwards he continues tormenting Domestic violence victims lose nearly eight million days of paid
his wife unabashedly. He incites public treatment of his spouse work per year in the US alone—the equivalent of 32,000 full-time
as an object of ridicule and provokes his relatives to assail her to jobs.
