Maquila Monologues

Montréal, February 22, 2011 – What don’t we know about the making of a pair of jeans?
Designed as a metaphor of a sewing assembly line, The Maquila Monologues is a play that tells the stories of four women workers in a denim jean maquila who struggle to survive, and of four other women obsessed to fit into a pair of pants size Extra Small. Combining physical performance, theater and poetry, the Mexican playwright and director Inti Barrios created the play based on testimonies from women that work in Mexico’s jeans and electronics export-led industries.

--Les monologues de la maquila

In the future, Inti would love to develop a global version of the play that includes workers' stories from Central America, India, and maybe China, given that the themes are so universally applicable.

--Inti Barrios profile, Maquila Solidarity Network