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PRIETO STAMBAUGH, Antonio  e  CASTRO CRUZ, Laura Estefanía. Of masks and mimetic machines: the performance of self-representation in Lázaro, by Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.2, pp.237-266. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.034.

The Mexican theatre group Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol presented their latest production, Lázaro, by means of digital platforms during the year 2020. The play is a work of “self-fiction” in which actor and director Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez narrates the process of transformation he underwent when he decided to change his name and undergo a plastic surgery to alter his face. Lázaro exercised an audio-visual montage, juxtaposing personal archive materials (family pictures, film clips in which Rodríguez acts) with the written testimonies of people who are close to the performer and talk about how Gabino has ceased to exist in order to become Lázaro. With this production, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol staged a reflection about identity as a masquerade subject to discriminatory social relations in Mexico. Following theorizations posed by F. Guattary and S. Rolnik, we discuss the micropolitical dimensions of Lázaro, the way this play exposes the tensions between a personal process of singularization with the “machinical” production of subjectivity in capitalist societies. We argue that the play articulates a critique of the biotechnological construction of personhood and that, by staging the face as a performative mask, it interrogates practices of self-representation and the politics of the gaze.

Palavras-chave : Reality; Self-fiction; Post-identity; Palimpsest; Mexico.

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