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Festival de Teatro Casa Latinoamericana de Londres, 2013 

Casa Latin American Theatre Festival 2013

miércoles 22 de octubre de 2014, 11:21h

Friday 27th September – Sunday 6th October 2013 - UK Programme

CASA Latin American Theatre Festival celebrates its sixth edition this autumn with 10 days of critically acclaimed Latin American theatre and culture at the Barbican, Rich Mix and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) this autumn.

After three successful years at Ovalhouse, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival 2013 (“CASA 2013”) is taking up residence at the Barbican, Rich Mix and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS).

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

This year, CASA 2013 presents an international programme with a strong focus on the personal implications of political corruption and violence.

Combining important ideas with superb stagecraft and ranging in style from naturalism to street theatre to physical theatre and shadow puppetry, CASA 2013 is back to delight audiences of all ages.

Highlights include the world acclaimed Teatro de los Andes from Bolivia presenting their darkly comic reimagining of Shakespeare’s most famous character in Hamlet de los Andes, a highly original new take that explores themes of state corruption and personal betrayal through the prism of modern day Bolivia. Also unmissable is their physical theatre masterpiece, En Un Sol, Memorias de un Temblor (Under a Yellow Sun, Memories of an Earthquake), a hard-hitting verbatim exposé of political corruption in the aftermath of the Aiquile earthquake in 1998.

Ecuador’s most respected theatre company Teatro Malayerba come to the UK for the first time with their stunning diptych of political plays about the Argentine Dictatorship, Instrucciones para abrazar el Aire (A Guide to Holding Thin Air) and La Razón Blindada (The Bulletproof Reason). Both shows are penned by leading Latin American playwright Arístides Vargas, himself a political exile from Argentina, and founder of Malayerba.

Other programming highlights include A Cortina da Babá (Babá’s Magic Curtain), a magical shadow puppet show for children based on Virginia Woolf’s Nurse Lugton’s Curtain by Brazil’s leading puppetry company Grupo Sobrevento in association with Chinese Shaanxi shadow puppet master Liang Jun.

Completing the international programme is the Chilean street theatre troupe, Teatro La Concepción with Poder de Papel (Paper Power) a clownish and heartbreaking stab that deconstructs how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

UK programming this year includes CASA Scratch Festival 2013 and the performance of two new full staged works by the joint winners of the CASA 2012 Scratch Festival, Tavarka Theatre Company and Ignacio Jarquín. More details will be announced soon.

Press information

For further information, images and to organise interviews, please contact Lora on [email protected]

For further information regarding the Barbican shows please contact Freddie Todd Fordham, Media Relations Officer, 020 7382 7399 or [email protected]

Public information

Rich Mix box office: 020 7613 7498

Barbican box office: 0845 120 7511

www.barbican.org.uk/theatre

Notes for Editors:

CASA Latin American Theatre Festival (“CASA”) was established in 2007 with the aim of bringing  brilliant Latin American theatre to the UK. The annual festival showcases work by Latin American companies and also aims to support and develop UK based Latin American theatre artists via the festival’s Scratch Night, an annual competition to uncover emerging talent.

CASA also runs a series of year round activities under the banner of Nuestra CASA, including CASA Theatre Workshops for the Latin American community in the UK, CASA Radio presenting contemporary plays performed in Spanish by Latin American actors, and CASA Readings, a series of classic Latin American works performed in translation.  

CASA is supported by Arts Council England through a grant for the arts.  

About Rich Mix

Rich Mix is a charity and social enterprise that offers live music, film, dance, theatre, comedy, spoken word and a range of creative activities for people of all ages and all cultures. All profits go back to support our education, arts and community activities which nurture new and local talent.

About the Barbican

A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.5 million people pass through the Barbican’s doors annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, the Pit, Cinemas One, Two and Three, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.

Listings Information

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 29th September 7:30pm

Press night: Saturday 28th 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.

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 4th October 7:45pm (+ post-show Q&A)

Saturday 5th October 7:45pm

Press night: Friday 4th October 7:45pm

The Pit, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Duration: 80 mins

Age: 14+

£16 (membership, group and access discounts apply)

Performed in Spanish with English surtitles

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.

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)

Wednesday 2nd October 7:45pm (+ post-show Q&A)

Thursday 3rd October 7:45pm  

Press night: Wednesday 2nd October 7:45pm

The Pit, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Duration: 80 mins

Age: 14+

£16 (membership, group and access discounts apply)

Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

En un Sol Amarillo, Memorias de un Temblor (Under a Yellow Sun)

By César Brie and Teatro de los Andes (Bolivia)

In 1998, an earthquake struck the Bolivian province of Aiquile destroying surrounding villages, towns and reducing thousands of homes to rubble.When the press lose interest and the cameras disappear, the rebuilding of broken homes becomes a business opportunity and it seems as though everyone at the top wants a part of it.

Based on extended interviews with a range of victims, Teatro de los Andes brilliantly expose what happened in the days, weeks and months after the earthquake struck. Combining exquisite physical theatre with verbatim accounts of the few seconds of earthquake and the years of suffering that followed, this acclaimed show from one of Latin America’s leading theatre companies is an unmissable theatre experience.

 "The beauty of this production lies in its skeletal theatricality… This is the power of theater emanating from its most elemental source. The lament, the fury and their ensuing beauty are unimpeachable." L.A. Weekly (USA)

Saturday 5th October 7:30pm (+ post-show Q&A)

Sunday 6th October 2:30pm & 7.30pm

Press night: Saturday 5th October 7:30pm

Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA

Duration: 70 mins

Age: 12+

All tickets: £10

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 and 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.

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 Concepción explore absolute power’s ability to corrupt absolutely in this raucous, funny and thought provoking show.

Thursday 3rd October 7:45pm

Friday 4th October 7:45pm

Press night: Thursday 3rd October 7:45pm

Saturday 5th October 5pm (+ post-show Q&A)

Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA

Duration: 65 mins

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 urgent 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.

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

Friday 4th October - Sunday 6th October

Times TBC

Venue TBC

Duration: 50 mins

Age: 4+

All tickets: £5  

Language No Problem

About Grupo Sobrevento

Founded in 1986, multi-award-winning Sao Paulo-based Sobrevento is internationally recognised as one of Brazil's most important puppetry companies. The company has performed across Latin America as well as in Ireland, Angola, Iran, Sweden and Estonia and run numerous events promoting puppetry and object manipulation across Brazil.

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