Gilda starred in\u00a0Edward Gallardo’s play “Women Without Men” at the Public Theater as part of the Festival Latino in 1985.<\/p>\n
Mel Gussow of the New York Times reviewed the play. (See: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/08\/10\/theater\/theater-women-without-men-by-gallardo.html).<\/p>\n
“The head of the work force, the oldest of the women, is Orquidea, a dominant matriarch who rules the workers as she does her adult daughter (also a worker). As played by Gilda Mir\u00f2s, this is a rigid woman of the old school, striking a moralistic pose. She cannot forget that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on a Sunday. ‘The infidels!’ she exclaims.<\/p>\n
At the same time that she subjugates her daughter (Socorro Santiago) to her will and spurns her son’s widow and child (he had the audacity, by her measure, to marry a black woman), she goes her own merry way toward remarriage with the man who abused her children. Gradually, it is clear that the mother has a monstrous streak. With careful self-control, Miss Mir\u00f2s never becomes melodramatic.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t