Actress and singer Didi Romero is preparing for the premiere of her first work as a writer and director, “For the Love of the Gods,” and the reactions from her followers have been varied.
The messages are many, mostly congratulations, but there was one that stirred his emotional memory, and not necessarily because of good memories. It’s about who was his “bully” at school and is now asking him for “free tickets” to the play that will be performed in the Tapia Theater from November 3rd.
“I was the victim of harsh bullying for being ridiculous, stupid, stupid, artistic and vulnerable. If you had so much bullying and so much against me: Why are you asking me about lockers in my DM (direct message)? I give you? You can’t pretend that bullying didn’t happen. Call me stupid, call me ridiculous, tell me to get over it, tell me anything you want. I have trauma and I admit it,” the influencer commented.
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The video was aimed directly at the person who bullied him at school “because you’re not my friend.”
Romero returned to Puerto Rico after nearly a year touring the United States with the musical Six, where she played Katherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife. I could have predicted her debut in the director’s chair, but not that of a playwright.
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For the love of the gods, he wrote it at the age of 18 while “completely bored in my room.” He presented it for the first time at La Beckett in Río Piedras, a space used by theater producers to perform small plays. After returning to the island, he reviewed the script and modified it, creating “a new script.”
“The piece is about the imperfect, the perfect. And what better way to portray such a representation than with gods from Olympus, who are considered extremely perfect? “It’s inspired by the myth of Pandora’s Box, which is the box that Pandora opens and all the horrors come into the world, and that’s why there’s so much evil in the world,” Romero explained.
Tickets for For the Love of the Gods are available at PRTicket.