Ambigú Reading | Staged Reading: First Blood - Primera Sangre

First Blood is about a girl who was kidnapped and murdered in the 1990s – the case was closed, and the murderer never found.



In the play, Laura is no longer there, yet present throughout (the dead do not respect the peace of the dead). Laura interacts with her neighbors of the same age, with the detective who was in charge of the case, and with a kindergarten teacher:

Are we raising our children in a climate of fear? Does fear protect against danger or prevent life? Is rape culture a kind of open secret society, as anthropologist and activist Rita Laura Segato puts it? What structures of abuse have we internalized?


First Blood presents itself as autofiction, thriller, and ghost story, forcing us to reflect on the childhood abuse that lives on in the bodies of many women.


Poetic and haunting, First Blood invites us to remember; to be many. For First Blood, author María Velasco was awarded the Spanish National Prize in the Drama category in 2024.


(IN GERMAN)