Paco Bezerra, to Vox: “If Santa Teresa were here today, she would spit in your face one by one”

The dramatist Paco Bezerra He has stood up to Vox in the Madrid Assembly by defending his work’I die because I don’t die‘, on the figure of Saint Teresa of Jesus, which was canceled by the Teatros del Canal, and believes that this parliamentary group is “judging with their morals” and has asked them to “get the people of Madrid out of their mouths.” “I am more of Santa Teresa than you and I respect Santa Teresa more than you,” he snapped at Vox deputy Gonzalo Babé.

During the Culture Commission this Tuesday, the playwright explained that the director of the Teatros del Canal said ‘yes’ to the performance of the play in 2021 in theaters with 50,000 euros of financing. In addition, she proposed to present it in another contest as well.

However, five days before making the work official, he calls them saying that his “political bosses” have made a last-minute cut and they will not have their project, but they would take it into account for the next season, something that did not occur for the same reason.

Next, Babé has shown his “joy” for the fact that his programming has not been carried out because it is a work “harmful and grotesque“, in which Santa Teresa de Jesús appears “on a highway where a truck driver picks her up with a knife in her neck, rapes her and then falls asleep in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid where she is going to prick herself and prostitute herself”.

“The freedom of creation is above all else, the only thing I qualify is that it is not done with the money of all the people of Madrid as they wanted to do. It is of questionable quality because of how Santa Teresa is approached. For me, Santa Teresa is an immense saint of the Catholic Church, who deserves my utmost respect and admiration. If you want to program it, there will be rooms that can finance you and I am glad that it is not with the money of the people of Madrid”, Babé has launched.

To this, Bezerra has responded that “he is judging with his morals” but he has reminded him that his morals “are not that of all Madrid residents”. “He is in the minority. Do not speak through the mouths of all Madrid residents, get the people of madrileños out of their mouths because madrileños don’t want to be in their mouths and he is judging with his morality that says that being a junkie and a prostitute is demeaning“, he has reproached him.

Thus, he has continued to defend that half of his friends have been junkies and that they are “great people” and that “a junkie or a prostitute is nothing demeaning”. In fact, he has stressed that “drugs are where there is more money”, for which he has asked him not to talk about “who takes drugs or not”.

“Santa Teresa is not denigrated for being a prostitute or a junkie. You have not read the work. I am more of Santa Teresa than you and I respect Santa Teresa more than you. First read my work and then speak. He stays with what the fascists have told him“, the playwright has finished.

Finally, Bezerra settled with the following lapidary sentence: “Saint Teresa freaks out when she arrives here and sees that the hand that took a vow of poverty and ate the hardest bread, today is full of jewels and precious stones. Freaks out when she sees that They have made her a virgin of the Christian race, and she says: ‘Yes, I was a converted Jew.’ Dedicated to teaching women to be good wives, Saint Teresa becomes a squatter, she says: ‘If that’s what I did 500 years ago, I invented squatter houses.’ If Santa Teresa were here, she would spit in your face, all of Vox, one by one.“.