From 27/09 to 6/10 – CASA LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2013

01 Sep, 2013

CASA LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2013

from  27th September to 6th October 2013 Listings

Casa Latin American Theatre Festival (talks, workshops, plays etc) , Rich Mix and Pleasance Islington i: /   http://www.casafestival.org.uk   Some events FREE

CASA 2013 will feature outstanding work from leading theatre companies from Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil , Chile and Uruguay  alongside new work by emerging UK-based Latin American theatre-makers, live music events, visual arts exhibitions, workshops and debates.

B UY TICKETS:
@  Barbican:  / www.barbican.co.uk
Mix:  / ww w.richmix.org.uk
CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL PROGRAMMING. 

BRAZILIAN PROGRAMMING AT CASA Festival

The Festival presents Brazilian programming as   Grupo Sobrevento  from São Paulo @ The Pleasance,  £5. There is an event  Footclowning inspired in football that happen in Macapá, Norht of Brazil, on 29/09 in the afternoon. FREE On 05th of October 12pm, Rehearsing Reality,  documentary by Augusto Boal and Movimento sem-terra. Director Nina Simões will be presented to answer questions . FREE

ALL PLAYS – SEE THE LISTINGS AND SAVE THE DATES!

Instrucciones para Abrazar el Aire (A Guide to Holding Thin Air) By Arístides Vargas and Teatro Malayerba (Ecuador) Every day, an elderly couple remind each other of the absence of the granddaughter they never met. Every day, they remember in order not to forget.  Based on true events that occurred in a house located in the city of La Plata in 1976, the play ingeniously threads together the stories of two murdered cooks, a young kidnapped girl and two nosy neighbours who witness everything and do nothing. A lyrical master-class in tragicomic writing, this new play set in Argentina during the dictatorship is political theatre at its most tender and heartbreaking. “A creation of remarkable beauty, devastatingly written.” El telón de los secretos  (Spain)

Saturday 28th September 7:30pm ( + post-show Q&A) Sunday 29 ^th September 7:30pm Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA Duration: 80mins Age: 14+ All tickets: £10 Performed in Spanish with English Surtitles.

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Noche de verano lejos de los Andes o diálogos con mi dentista
(A summer night far from the Andes or dialogues with my dentist)
Celebrated award-winning actress, clown and would-be diva, Susana Lastreto narrates the moving and often hilarious tale of how she left Argentina for Paris; the world she discovered, the world she left behind and the gap in between. Cracking jokes as she waits for her dentist to operate, accompanied by an accordionist who would be a cat, Susana tells her moving story full of music, warmth and laughs. A must see for anyone who’s searching for home away from home. “Susana Lastreto’s fine new play is as warm as tropical rain, as deft as a Maradona pass and as rhythmic as a Piazzola tango.” Le Billet d’Humeur

About Susana Lastreto & GRRR
GRRR  (Groupe  Rires,  Rage,  Résistance) was founded in Paris in 1998 by Argentine actress, playwright and director Susana Lastreto to bring French and Latin American Artists together to make new work. Over the past 15 years, the company has combined Susana’s texts alongside new writing, stand up, cabaret and music to create ten accessible and original theatre works that have toured extensively throughout France, Europe and Latin America.

Wed 2nd October 7.30 pm (Press Night) / Thu 3rd October 7.30 pm (+ post show Q&A) / Fri 4th October 7.30 pm
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA / Duration: 80 mins / Age 14+ / £10
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

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La Razón Blindada ( The Bulletproof Reason) By  Arístides Vargas and Teatro Malayerba Country: Ecuador Two prisoners in solitary confinement during Argentina’s 1970s dictatorship are permitted to meet for one hour a week. To escape their harsh reality they tell each other the story of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Forced to remain seated throughout their encounter, they allow their minds to soar free by constantly reinventing Cervantes’ hero, the knight errant who mistakes windmills for giants and prisons for paradise. Through the use of simple props and quick-fire dialogue, Ecuador’s leading theatre company exemplify the power of theatre to transport us into the realm of the imagination even as we remain bound to our seats. ‘Hammers home man’s gross capacity for inhumanity – and his transcendent ability to endure ’ L.A. Times (USA)

Friday 4 ^th October 7:45pm (+ post-show Q&A) Saturday 5 ^th October 7:45pm The Barbican Centre Pit Theatre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS Duration: 80 mins Age: 14+ £16 (membership, group and access discounts apply) Performed in Spanish with English subtitles.

About Teatro Malayerba: Founded in Quito in 1979 by three immigrant artists who are now some of the most influential theatre-makers in South-America (Arístides Vargas, Susana Pautasso and María del Rosario ‘Charo’ Francés), Malayerba explores in their plays the rich cultural diversity and complex history of Ecuador and the South-American continent, as well as issues of migration, exile, political violence and collective memory.

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Hamlet de los Andes by Diego Alambraro and Teatro de Los Andes (Bolivia) In their first visit to the UK, acclaimed company Teatro de los Andes transpose Hamlet to Bolivia in this urgent, physical and stunningly visual production. Using deceptively simple staging, three actors and a musician play 15 characters to create a politically charged take on Hamlet that exposes the plight of the thousands of Bolivians who leave their rural homes for the city in hope of a better life. Deeply affecting, one of Latin America’s finest companies combines Bolivian music and traditional theatre forms with Shakespeare’s themes of personal betrayal and state corruption to create a darkly comic and original new work.   ‘A montage of great visual force’ ABC (Spain)

2 ^nd October 7:45pm (+ post-show Q&A) 3 ^rd October 7:45pm  The Barbican Centre Pit Theatre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS Duration: 80 mins Age: 14+ £16 (membership, group and access discounts apply) Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

About  Teatro de los Andes: Teatro de los Andes was founded in the village of Yotala, Sucre, in 1991 by Cesar Brie, Naira Gonzalez y Giampaolo Nalli. The current core members of the company are Lucas Achirico, Gonzalo Callejas, Alice Guimaraes y Giampaolo Nalli. Teatro de los Andes create and present their work in a large converted barn, host other artists and run workshops. Each actor is a creator of a theatre they define as ‘theatre of humour and memory” and all their work combines western theatre techniques with the music, fiestas and rituals of Andean culture. Since 1991, Teatro de los Andes has performed over 1500 performances of 21 different shows to over 300,000 audience members across Bolivia, the Americas, India, Australasia and Europe.

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Poder de Papel (Paper power) based on ‘Erase una vez un Rey’ by Oscar Castro By Teatro La Concepción (Chile) In the streets of a Chilean town, siblings El Watusi and La Tota collect cardboard and paper in the streets while dreaming of becoming millionaires and escaping their outcast lives. When they manage to rent a shopping trolley, a little more money starts rolling in and they decide that only one of them needs to work while the other can be “King” for a week. And so, for the first week, El Watusi reigns from the shopping cart while his sister works. When it is La Tota’s turn to be Queen, Watusi the King refuses to step down. He invents decrees, constitutions, laws and the requisite paperwork to continue being the King, the President, the Dictator forever. Combining brilliant slapstick comedy, live music and street theatre skills, Teatro la Concepcion explore absolute power’s ability to corrupt absolutely in this raucous, funny and thought provoking show.

Thursday 3rd October 7:45pm Friday 4 ^th October 7:45pm Saturday 5 ^th October 5pm (+ post-show Q&A) Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA Duration: 65 minutes Age 14+ £10 Performed in Spanish with English subtitles About Teatro La Concepción Juan Pablo Aguilera, Cristóbal Troncoso, Francisca Ovalle and musician Rayen Pérez found Teatro La Concepción in 2008 in Santiago, Chile. The company aims at reaching a broad audience through humour, making use of tragicomedy to communicate important socio-political messages. Their productions combine dramaturgy, music and acting in a stripped down scenography. Coming for the first time to the UK, Teatro La Concepción has performed in more than twenty festivals in Chile, Peru and Venezuela.

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A Cortina da Bába (The Magic Curtain) By: Grupo Sobrevento (Brazil) One of the most established Brazilian puppetry companies, Grupo Sobrevento presents in Babá’s magic curtain a show developed in collaboration with Chinese shadow puppet master Liang Jun and performed to hundreds of children throughout South-America. A dream-like world waits patiently while Babá sews. As she dozes in the lamplight, the animals behind the curtain slowly awaken and begin their magical journey towards the town of Millamarchmantopolis. Based on the short story Nurse Lugton’s Curtain that Virginia Woolf wrote to her niece, beautiful shadow puppetry performed by four actors/puppeteers with original soundtrack. “ A masterclass of puppetry, light and film. Our Verdict: Excellent.” Folha de São Paulo, Brasil

Saturday 5 ^th October 2pm & 7pm  (Press Night)
Sunday 6 ^th October 11am
@ Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA Duration: 50 minutes Age: 4+ All tickets: £5 Language No Problem