Los calices vacios/ The Empty Chalices

The play interweaves the dramatic life and erotic work of Uruguayan poetess Delmira Agustini. Born some one hundred years ago in Montevideo, a repressive time and place for women, Delmira nevertheless managed to produce three books of increasingly revolutionary poetry, as she gradually freed herself from the physical, societal, and religious “female corset” of her time. However, her increasingly bohemian and “scandalous” behavior destroyed her brief marriage and threatened to end her very life at a young age…