Kassandra is the most performed work by Sergio Blanco in the world. with 23 productions in almost as many other countries, Kassandra has established herself as a universal character, telling his own story through his planetary migrations. Just as Kassandra is an emigrant, the work Kassandra is his written testimony, deposited like baggage in front of those who come to hear it in theaters all over the world. A monologue that mixes past and present in a common time.
Through a precarious English, Kassandra, a migrant sex worker, shares with the audience the most tragic aspects of existence, From being a secret princess turned into a prostitute, until facing gender discrimination when transforming from male to female. What we understand, first of all, it's his figure, the Cassandra of mythology, condemned by Apollo not to be believed despite her gift of prophecy, mocked by her contemporaries and presented as mad by Greek tradition. But it's all a lie.
Hui, Kassandra is on stage, here, in front of us, to make things clear. its truth. Victim of all past and present wars, a kidnapped princess turned prostitute out of necessity, an emigrant who survives by selling her body and cigarettes. A boy who became a girl much to the chagrin of his royal family. In the short time he is given on stage and on Earth, Kassandra has no other reason to exist than to explain her journey from historical Troy to our contemporary cities.
However, no sadness the anguish, no regrets. Nor his misfortunes, nor his destiny, even though she knew it was fatal. Nothing diminishes his faith in the idea that tomorrow will be better than today.
