Una ventana de esperanza frente al realismo capitalista: la construcción de la alternativa en Con vista a la bahía de Maruxa Vilalta

Con vista a la bahía (2010), the latest work by the Spanish-Mexican playwright Maruxa Vilalta, characterises the precarious and stark life of the great American capitalist city, a chronotope in which a permanent battle is waged between the temptations of corruption invited by a dehumanised system that has found in money its entire religion and the irreducible will of some individuals to build the alternative. Vilalta places us in front of a window in which creativity and love become an instrument for hope and the unalterable mechanism for imagining a different state of things, including their material reality. By imagining a bay where there is barely a suburb full of violence and poverty, the play's protagonist, Brian, initiates a counter-hegemonic exercise that overlaps with lapidary capitalist realism.