Fortunate: work on Santa Josefina Bakhita reimagine as a victim of trafficking in Peru current

The life of Santa Josefina Bakhita, nineteenth -century African slave who became Santa, will be presented in a few days in Peru through the play “Fortunate”, That reimaginates it as a victim of trafficking in people in the Lima of the 21st century.

Fray Gustavo Moreno Osa, general producer and screenwriter of the work, explained to Ewtn News that the work shows the transit of a woman broken towards full hope: “It will be reflected in the work all the time when she knows God.”

“He will experience that transit of not knowing it – and therefore, not having great hopes – to find it, have great hope for his life and establish a whole process of struggle and transformation for his freedom and for his dignity,” he explained.

This staging of the La Zarza collective It opens on Saturday, July 5 at 8:00 pm In the Auditorium of the San Agustín College, in Lima. Then there will be functions on July 6, 12 and 13 at the same schedules. Later there will be free functions in areas with less access to the theater.

Fray Gustavo says that the project was born from discernment and the desire to respond to current challenges. Thus, the collective found in Bakhita “a witness of hope, someone who managed to overcome great difficulties and sufferings to be light in this world.”

“From our Christian vision of life, we know that freedom and dignity are two inalienable gifts. But how many times, in the day to day, we renounce them: we renounce our value, to our dignity because we accept blows, or our freedom because we let ourselves be carried,” said the Augustinian friar.

Actress Carla Cotrina, protagonist of the work, told Ewtn News that assuming this role has also been a very intense personal experience: “It is being a constant preparation. It is also an internal battle with my own wounds and experiences, which has helped me a lot to connect with Josefina.”

“For me it has been a gift that God could give me,” he said.

For Cotrina, reviving Bakhita’s sufferings has been emotionally challenging: “We have worked hard with Bakhita’s newspaper, which is very hard to read. It is strong to imagine how a person could live all that and, despite everything, say: ‘I forgive everyone’. One wonders: ‘I could do it?’”.

Finally, Fray Gustavo explained that “the work shows how an appropriation process is given, to build the person himself based on these great truths.”

“That is what Bakhita’s life puts in motion: to be a enslaved woman to recover her dignity as a person, and even face people to affirm that dignity that God has given him,” he concluded.

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