CASA Festival Brochure 2010

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Over the course of just one week, we invite you to discover the very best contemporary theatre Latin America has to offer.

A lo largo de solo una semana, los invitamos a descubrir lo mejor del teatro contemporáneo en América Latina.

We are delighted to be hosting four award-winning companies, all making their UK debuts: from Argentina we bring you Timbre4 with their critically acclaimed drama, Tercer Cuerpo (p5); from Uruguay we have Teatro de la Alhambra with Cabrerita, their homage to the painter Raúl Javiel Cabrera (p7); from Colombia the wonderfully physical Teatro del Presagio with Acéfalos (p9) and from El Salvador, La Galera Teatro with their hardhitting political monologue, El secreto más terrible (p11).

Es nuestro placer presentar a cuatro compañías galardonadas, todas haciendo su debut en el Reino Unido: de Argentina traemos a Timbre4 con su aclamada drama, Tercer Cuerpo (Pág.5); de Uruguay tenemos a Teatro de la Alhambra con Cabrerita, su homenaje al pintor Raúl Javiel Cabrera (Pág.7); de Colombia el maravillosamente físico Teatro del Presagio con Acéfalos (Pág.9) y desde El Salvador La Galera Teatro con su contundente monólogo político, El secreto más terrible (Pág.11).

We also welcome you to the Nuestra Casa Scratch Festival on Thursday 11th November (p13), where we will be showcasing exciting new works by UK-based Latin American theatre practitioners. As well as theatre there will be music, poetry, art exhibitions, lectures, workshops and a whole lot more to discover every day of the week. Check out the calendar of events (p15) for more information!

Los invitamos también al Nuestra Casa Scratch Festival el jueves 11 de Noviembre (Pág.13), donde podrán ver nuevo material de artistas latinoamericanos basados en el Reino Unido. Además de teatro habrá música, poesía, exhibiciones de arte, pláticas, talleres y mucho más que descubrir a lo largo de la semana. Echen un vistazo al calendario de eventos (Pág.15) para más información!

Enjoy!

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Daniel Goldman - Artistic Director

Daniel Goldman - Director Artístico

Tercer Cuerpo (Third Wing) by Claudio Tolcachir

Timbre4/Argentina

9th & 10th November at 7.45pm Five lives. Five lonely people. All of them looking for love. One day will bring them together in a way that will force them to face the lies they live with. Timbre4, one of Argentina’s most respected theatre companies, are led by playwright/director/actor Claudio Tolcachir and operate out of one of the smallest theatre spaces in Buenos Aires: Tolcachir’s own home. Though their resources are limited, their reputation isn’t.

Written as a follow up to his breakthrough hit play, The Omission of the Coleman Family, Tercer Cuerpo has been performed over 300 times, including performances at major theatre festivals across Latin America, Europe and the USA. First performed in 2008, Tercer Cuerpo has since won Best Production at the National Theatre Awards and the Maria Guerrero award for Best Play, as well as Best Actor, Best Writer and Best Lighting at the Teatro del Mundo Festival.

Cast:

Director/Writer: Set Design: Lighting Design:

Carlos Hernán Grinstein, Magdalena Grondona, Daniela Pal, Melisa Hermida, José María Marcos Claudio Tolcachir Gonzalo Córdoba Estevez Omar Possemato

Post-show Discussion: Tuesday 9th November Tercer Cuerpo is a co-production between Timbre4 and Santiago a Mil International Festival

Cinco vidas. Cinco personas solas. Cada uno busca el amor. Un día les llevara a enfrentarse a las mentiras con las que viven sus vidas. Una de las compañías más respetadas en el teatro argentino contemporáneo, dirigida por actor/autor/director Claudio Tolcachir, Timbre4 opera desde uno de los teatros más pequeños de Buenos Aires: la casa del propio Tolcachir.

Escrita como seguimiento de la exitosa La Omisión de la Familia Coleman, Tercer Cuerpo ha sido presentada más de 300 veces, participando en festivales internacionales en América Latina, Europa, y los Estados Unidos. Desde ser presentada en el 2008, Tercer Cuerpo ha recibido el Premio Nacional para él Mejor Espectáculo y el premio María Guerrero para la Mejor Obra, al igual que los premios para Mejor Actor, Mejor Dramaturgo y Mejor Diseño de Iluminación en el Festival Teatro del Mundo.

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Cabrerita

by Eduardo Cervieri

Teatro de la Alhambra/Uruguay

9th, 10th & 11th November at 8pm Starring award-winning actor Carlos Rodriguez, Cabrerita tells the uplifting story of the life of Raúl Javiel Cabrera, mythical Montevidean character and noted watercolourist, who was committed to a mental asylum for thirty years under the most terrible conditions a man can be expected to bear, mostly due to bad luck.

Teatro de la Alhambra is an independent theatre company formed in 1995 when a group of actors that had studied under Jorge Triador contacted director Eduardo Cervieri and decided to form their own company. They have produced a number of critically acclaimed shows including ..tuyo, Federico, Tierra Gitana, Sepia by Eduardo Cervieri, Montevicuentos and Sexo en la cabeza. Cabrerita is their biggest success to date and has been performed to great acclaim across Latin America and Spain. It won Best Actor and Best Uruguayan Play at the Florencio Awards (Uruguay’s National Theatre Critics Awards).

Cast: Director/Writer: Set Design: Translation:

Carlos Rodríguez Eduardo Cervieri Eduardo Cervieri Roberto Cavazos

Post-show Discussion: Wednesday 10th November

Protagonizado por el galardonado actor Carlos Rodríguez, Cabrerita cuenta la edificante historia de la vida de Raúl Javiel Cabrera, uno de los míticos personajes montevideanos, notable acuarelista, y un hombre que, por mala suerte mas que nada, pasó casi 30 años en un hospital para enfermos psiquiátricos en las condiciones más terribles que un hombre pueda llegar a soportar.

El grupo Teatro de la Alhambra es un grupo independiente que se inició en el año 1995, cuando un grupo de actrices y actores, alumnos de Jorge Triador, se contactan con el director Eduardo Cervieri y deciden formar un grupo propio.

Sus obras incluyen ...tuyo, Federico, Tierra Gitana, Sepia de Eduardo Cervieri, Montevicuentos y Sexo en la cabeza. Cabrerita es su mayor éxito y gano el Premio “Florencio” a Mejor Actor Protagónico y el Premio “Florencio” a Mejor Obra de Autor Nacional.

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Viva Cuba!

This box set includes 7 films by some of Cuba’s best-regarded filmmakers, including Tomás Gutièrrez Alea and Humberto Solás. Films in the set are: Beloved, Cecilia, Che Guevara as You Have Never Seen Him Before, The Death of a Bureaucrat, A Successful Man, The Twelve Chairs, and The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin.

Plan B

Argentine Marco Berger’s feature-length debut and film festival favourite Plan B sees Bruno’s attempts to win back his ex-girlfriend take an unexpected turn when he befriends her handsome new boyfriend.

Tony Manero

A sociopathic dancer will stop at nothing to win a talent contest and national exposure, amidst one of the darkest chapters in Chile’s modern history. Chilean director Pablo Larrain shows an astonishing use of cinematic technique in only his second film. Tony Manero is a brave, multilayered thriller that is tragic, blackly humorous, and utterly compelling.

In the Pit

This poignant and moving tale of workers building Mexico City’s inner Periferico freeway is a revelation. The worker’s gentle sense of humour in the face of their vast and dangerous work, together with their poverty-stricken lives, is in turn both heart warming and electrifying.

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Acéfalos

by Diego Fernando Montoya

Teatro del Presagio/Colombia

12th & 13th November at 7.45pm 13th November at 4pm “Acéfalos doesn’t aim to tell you a story... It’s a theatrical gamble... We wanted to challenge the audience’s need to “understand” what they’re watching. We wanted to play a game that only made sense to us. We wanted to see how far you could go before your aesthetic slipped away and disappeared into chaos... But none of it worked. The audience came and, sitting huddled in the darkness waiting for, hoping for something, who knows what, they understood. They understood our show with their hearts and their minds and their souls. They defeated us. We’re happy.”

Teatro del Presagio, founded in Cali in 2005, are regarded as one of the most exciting theatre companies making work in Colombia today. Always striving to push theatrical boundaries to the maximum, Acéfalos was created in 2008. It premiered at the VIth Cali National Theatre Festival where Diego Fernando Montoya received the Best Director Award for the piece.

Cast:

Director/Writer:

Diana Mellado, Gonzalo Basto, Camilo Villamarin, Ingrid Osorio, Edwin Taborda Diego Fernando Montoya

Post-show Discussion: Friday 12th November Acéfalos is generously supported by the Colombian Embassy

Acéfalos no pretende contar ninguna historia… Es una apuesta teatral…

Quisimos hablar en metáforas, hacer analogías, poner trampas, hablar en código, cruzar descaradamente la línea de las convenciones clásicas, burlarnos de los cánones, de las preceptivas antiguas y de las modernas también, hacer un juego que sólo a nosotros nos incumbiera. Quisimos saber hasta dónde se puede llegar antes de cruzar el límite en el que una propuesta estética se hunde para siempre en el caos… Pero de nada ha servido. El público lo ha entendido todo, con la cabeza y con el cuerpo y con el alma. Nos ha derrotado. Estamos felices.

Teatro del Presagio, creado en 2005, es una de las compañías más innovadoras trabajando hoy en Colombia. Con Acéfalos, estrenado en el 2008, Diego Fernando Montoya gano el premio Mejor Director al Sexto Festival Nacional de Teatro de Cali

El secreto más terrible

by Eduardo Pavlovsky

La Galera Teatro / El Salvador

12th & 13th November at 8pm 13th November at 3.30pm

A new version of Eduardo Pavlovsky’s Argentine masterpiece Potestad, this powerful monologue explores the kidnapping of children during a Latin American dictatorship. According to René Lovo, director and performer, it is a play that confronts the socio-political and profoundly human truth of a country that, at some point in its recent past, has engaged in the disappearing of unwanted elements of society for political reasons.

La Galera Teatro (originally La Cocina Teatro) was founded in 2006 to investigate and develop the autonomy of the actor while creating works that challenge the social and cultural contexts in which they are made. El secreto más terrible has been performed in El Salvador and at the Festival Internacional Teatro del Carmen in Mexico. In April of this year La Galera Teatro became the first El Salvadorian company to perform in Spain.

Cast: Director: Set Design: Writer:

René Lovo René Lovo René Lovo Eduardo Pavlovsky

Post-show Discussion: Saturday 13th November

Una versión autónoma de Potestad de Eduardo Pavlovsky, este monólogo explora el secuestro de infantes durante una dictadura latinoamericana. Según René Lovo, protagonista y director, un hecho político, social y profundamente humano en un país que vivió, en algún tiempo de su pasado, el problema de la persecución y los desaparecimientos de personas por razones políticas.

La Galera Teatro (originalmente La Cocina Teatro) nació en el año 2006 para dedicarse a investigar la autonomía del lenguaje del actor. Su gran objetivo es lanzarse a la búsqueda de lenguajes teatrales, la creación de obras de carácter más auténtico, ligadas al contexto y la cultura nacional. El secreto más terrible se ha presentado en El Salvador, en México y en Abril de este año La Galero Teatro se volvió la primera compañía de El Salvador en presentarse en España.

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Master’s and research degrees, public events, publications Forthcoming public lectures on Latin America include: Friday 5 November Rising Brazil - trends, directions, and challenges series Wednesday 10 November Aztec gold: facts not fiction Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 November Inca Ushnus: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 November Between the past and the future: challenging narratives of memory in Latin America Wednesday 24 November South America's regional options: too many and too diverse?

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Nuestra CASA Scratch Festival Tell us who YOU want to see at next year’s CASA 2011 Latin American Theatre Festival.

We’re giving six Latin American companies and artists who make theatre work in the UK the chance to share a new project with you. Each company has up to 15 minutes to inspire you, to delight you, to move you. Then it’s your turn as we all move to the Cafe Bar, where you’ll have a chance to tell them exactly what you thought over a FREE Cusqueña beer.

For the shy (or very critical) amongst you, you can of course offer feedback anonymously through secret paper forms.

Once we’ve had a good chance to read all your comments and had a good think ourselves we’ll pick one company who we will work with in the hope we can all see the full length show at CASA 2011.

11th November at 7.45pm Generously supported by: Generosamente patrocinado por:

Déjanos saber a quién TU quieres ver en CASA 2011 Latin American Theatre Festival el próximo año. Le estamos dando a seis compañías o artistas latinoamericanos creadores de teatro en el Reino Unido la oportunidad de compartir un nuevo proyecto contigo. Cada compañía tendrá hasta 15 minutos para inspirarte, deleitarte, conmoverte. Después será tu turno cuando pasemos todos al Cafe Bar, donde tendrás la oportunidad de decirles exactamente lo que te pareció su trabajo mientras disfrutas una cerveza Cusqueña GRATIS. Para los tímidos (o más críticos) entre ustedes también será posible dar sus opiniones por escrito de manera anónima. Una vez que hayamos tenido la oportunidad de leer todos sus comentarios y deliberarlo nosotros mismos elegiremos una compañía con la cual trabajaremos en la esperanza de que podamos ver la obra completa en CASA 2011.

CASA Visual Arts Gallery

10th November, 5.30pm-7pm supported by Cusqueña

For the duration of CASA Festival 2010, Oval House Theatre Gallery hosts some of the most exciting emerging Latin American visual artists and photographers working in the UK. All works of art are for sale.

A lo largo del CASA Festival 2010, Oval House Theatre Gallery exhibirá el trabajo de los más emocionantes artistas visuales y fotógrafos emergentes de América Latina trabajando en el Reino Unido. Todas las obras de arte están a la venta.

Out of the Wings Symposium

CASA Super Saturday

We promise you an afternoon of rigorous thought as we welcome two leading members of the Out of the Wings Project for two fascinating talks.

A whole day dedicated to Latin American theatre, music, poetry, art, food, drinks and more. As well as the possibility of catching a discount double bill of Acéfalos (p9) and El secreto más terrible (p11) in the afternoon AND in the evening, we have a special event for you at 5.30pm! CASA Associate Artist Laura Brauer will be doing a one-off performance as her brilliant clown Cloten, a hapless, hilarious German teacher based in Buenos Aires.

Finally, we’ll be finishing off with a big closing party and you’re invited!

Un día entero dedicado a teatro, música, poesía, arte, comida, bebidas y más de América Latina. Además de un descuento para ver funciones de Acéfalos (p9) y El secreto más terrible (p11) por la tarde Y por la noche, tenemos un evento especial para ustedes a las 5.30pm! Laura Brauer, Socia Artística de CASA dará una función única de su tremendo clown Cloten, una desventurada y graciosísima maestra de Alemán basada en Buenos Aires.

Finalmente, el festival terminará con una gran fiesta y tú estás invitado!

11th November, 3pm – 5.30pm

3pm-4pm: Dr Gwendolyn MacKeith will introduce the work of the Out of the Wings Project.

---Break for Tea and Coffee--4.30pm-5.30pm: Professor Catherine Boyle asks, “What is Latin American Theatre?”

13th November, 12pm till LATE

THE CASA TEAM

CASA 2010 Workshops

We are delighted to announce a series of Latin American Theatre masterclasses and workshops that will take place during the festival 2010, 9-13 November 2010.

Masterclasses Three world class visiting companies (La Galera Teatro – El Salvador, Teatro del Presagio - Colombia, Teatro de la Alhambra – Uruguay) and Tierra Theatre Company (UK) will be sharing their unique creative processes with participants over the course of two days.

The workshops are an opportunity to collaborate with some of the most exciting theatre companies making theatre in Latin America today and are available individually or in pairs or all together. These Masterclasses are aimed at professional actors and/or actors in training only. Please note the workshops are based on the work each company is presenting at CASA 2010.

Wednesday 10 November, 10:30-13:30 Wednesday 10 November, 14:15-17:15 Thursday 11 November, 10:30 – 13:30 Thursday 11 November, 14:15 – 17:15 Location: Price: N.B.

Tierra Theatre Co. Teatro del Presagio La Galera Teatro Teatro de la Alhambra

Taking stories, making theatre Breaking all the rules The autonomy the actor Directing a life

Oval House Theatre £15 / £10 (concs) per 3 hour session or £50 / £35 (concs) for all four sessions 14 participants (max)

Forum Theatre – A Practical Workshop Laura Brauer, one of Argentina’s leading forum theatre practitioners, will be sharing her forum theatre techniques and creative process, culminating in a short forum theatre presentation to an invited audience. The workshop will explore all aspects of forum theatre, from the ideological to the practical, and will be geared towards professional and amateur theatre makers who wish to discover this most social form of theatre.

Dates: 11th and 12th November 2010 Location: Oval House Theatre Price: £40 / £30 (concs) for both days Times: Day one: 10:00 – 13:00, 14:00 – 17:00 (6 hours in total)

Day two: 10:00 – 13:00, 14:00-16:00 + performance 17:15 – 18:15 (6 hours in total) N.B. 10 participants (max)

CASA Artistic Team Daniel Goldman Artistic Director Carolina Ortega Deputy Festival Director/Artistic Programmer Alice da Cunha Marketing and Press Director Jorge Perez Falconi Fundraising Director Roberto Cavazos Artistic Associate Fernando Abadie Artistic Associate Frankie Andrews Graphic Designer Technical Team Miguel Oyarzun Production Manager Pablo Fernandez Baz Lighting Designer/Technical Manager Downstairs Phil Hewitt Lighting Designer/ Technical Manager Upstairs John Miguel King Assistant Lighting Designer Claire McIntyre Surtitling Quique Fernandez & Tom Harris Stage Carpenters

We are also indebted to Alex de Silva, Alice Bright, Alice Melin, Ana Karina de Silva, Ana Rojas, Becky Kirk, Claire McIntyre, Emma Martin, Gael Le Cornec, Isla Aguilar, Kate Pactor, Omar Elerian, Sandra Maturana, Santiago Bonifaz, Shae Kay, Sophie Mosberger and Tara Vernhes who have all been invaluable members of the CASA 2010 team. A special thank you also goes to Hannah Spens-Black. And finally, thank you Ixchel!

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Whats On Tercer Cuerpo Cabrerita Tercer Cuerpo Q & A CASA Opening Party Workshop Tierra Theatre Workshop Teatro del Presagio CASA Art Gallery Private View Tercer Cuerpo Cabrerita Cabrerita Q & A Workshop La Galera Teatro Workshop Teatro de la Alhambra Forum Theatre Workshop Out of the Wings Symposium Nuestra CASA Scratch Festival Cabrerita Scratch Party Forum Theatre Workshop Acéfalos El secreto más terrible Acéfalos Q & A Latin American Lunch!

El secreto más terrible Acéfalos El secreto más terrible Q & A Cloten, An argentine clown show Acéfalos El secreto más terrible CASA Closing Party

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