In pictures: Stage production Juarez

Juárez: A Documentary Mythology was first staged before its most critical audience — in Juárez itself — in January.

“I created this show along with the company member of Theater Mitu as a way to rediscover my hometown and El Paso, its sister city across the border,” Polendo writes in the programme notes.

From Abu Dhabi, the production will move to Cairo for a short run where Polendo hopes that the work will assume a new relevance.

The city of Juárez has been called many things. Originally, it was known as Paso del Norte — ‘the passage to the North.’

The theatre showing sold out during a short run at NYUAD.

Rubén Polendo's family used to live in Ciudad Juárez. The artistic director of Theater Mitu and associate professor of theatre at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) was born and grew up against this backdrop of fast-tracked social change. Polendo's latest work, Juárez: A Documentary Mythology, tells the story of the transformation of his birthplace through the words of his 85-year-old father and the people who still live in Juárez. The result is a powerful piece of theatre which sold out during a short run at NYUAD. All photos courtesy of NYC Abu Dhabi.