An Elephant in the Room — the official poster. Title lettering over a heartbeat trace on a distressed teal wall; below it, two black snakes meet nose to nose above a bare forearm held by gloved hands.

Global Mosaic Foundationpresents

An Elephant in the Room

“All entrances are closed…”

An award-winning play by a Panamanian artist.

Written by Roberto Thomas-Díaz, the Panamanian artist and winner of the 2022 Ricardo Miró Award.

This play is supported by GMF’s Fragments of Brilliance.

A protest blocks the entrances to the busiest hospital in Panama City. Inside a storage room, four women who work there discover something unusual: a man wearing a hospital uniform has broken in to steal. No one can leave or enter. Who is he? What do they do with him?

“All entrances are closed…”

Two performers in blue hospital scrubs on a stage: one is pulled to the floor by the shirt, the other kneels over him mid-line, against a green wall beside a cleaner’s trolley.
In the room — An Elephant in the Room.

Winner of the 2022 Ricardo Miró Award.

This play by Panamanian artist Roberto Thomas-Díaz, winner of the 2022 Ricardo Miró Award, explores the challenges faced by healthcare workers within the current state of our health systems.

Through GMF’s Fragments of Brilliance programme, this acclaimed work, originally written in Spanish, celebrates its world premiere in English with a translation written by Thomas-Díaz himself.

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