Mi madre y el dinero

Josefina Orlaineta has managed forty businesses, from small sandwich shops to costume jewelry. On stage, Mexican director Anacarsis Ramos and his mother attempt a materialist reading of these years of work. This gentler reading frees Josefina from choices dictated by a specific context: Campeche, a coastal and working-class city whose natural wealth ceased, in the twentieth century, to benefit its residents. The forty-first business, a small theatre enterprise, unfolds before our eyes. Josefina no longer appears as a resourceful businesswoman, but as an actress, performing the complex entanglement of labor, theatre, and life.

[As part of the Festival d'Automne 2026]

Direction and set design: Anacarsis Ramos

Creation: Pornotráfico

Text: Anacarsis Ramos based on accounts by Josefina Orlaineta

With: Josefina Orlaineta and Anacarsis Ramos

Dramaturgy: Santiago Villalpando

Research collaboration: Babis Zozoaya

Sound, lighting, and video design: Karla Sánchez « Kiwi »

Executive production, set and prop construction: Fausto Castaño

Scenic painting: Josefina Orlaineta

Assistant directors: Sofía León and Valentina Girón

Vlogger recording assistance: Emiliano Sandoval Touring and distribution: Roni Isola