[Mary Stuart] is a tragedy about power between two women in an extremely important moment in history [...] It's about the potentiality of Mary Stuart's power, disabled [condenada] by her sentimentalism and passion, confronted by a Queen Elizabeth [who is] objective, and has tremendous physical strength. [Mere] potentiality of power is always destructive. It's a metaphor for the Latin American situation: our future, part free, part imprisioned by political motives. We are violated, fecundated by the First World, seduced.... (Denise Stoklos, Interview with MarÌa Teresa Alvarado, l991, translation Leslie Damasceno)

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