Opening of "Savia," an Extraordinary Theater Play about the Amazonian Rubber Boom and Geno
This last October 12th opened in Lima Savia, a theater play by Luis Alberto Leon directed by Chela De Ferrari of Teatro La Plaza. The story centers on Don Jesus, a character based on Julio Cesar Arana, "king of rubber" and main responsible for the genocide that took the lives of nearly forty thousand indigenous peoples in the Putumayo region of the northern Amazon. Sick and maddened by his supremacist delirium of grandeur, Don Jesus is confronted by three indigenous women who
