Day by Day

Hamlet (1948)

Hamlet (1948)
Great Britain, 155 minutes

Direction: Laurence Olivier
Adaptation: Laurence Olivier
Production: Laurence Olivier
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Staging: Helga Cranston
Art direction: Carmen Dillon
Music: William Walton
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Anthony Quayle, Esmond Knight and John Laurie

Not just because of the time in which this production was carried out , Olivier’s work constitutes without a doubt, the version of classic films. As such, the dramatics of this work aims at clarifying the psychology and motivation of the characters. The celebrated decision of substituting the soliloquies for monologues in off was, in that context, inevitable.

Hamlet (1969)

Hamlet (1969)
Great Britain, 117 minutes

Direction: Tony Richardson
Script : Tony Richardson
Production: Hans Gottschalk, Neil Hartley, Leslie Linder and Martin Ransohoff
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Staging: Charles Rees
Production design: Jocelyn Herbert
Cast : Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Ben Aris, Anjelica Huston


Because of the Roundhouse Theatre’s production, Williamson was considered the best Hamlet since Gielgud. Scholars agree that Gielgud and Burton were the last two colossal actors to play this role in the 20th Century. In the film version the phlegmatic Anthony Hopkins coexists with the bloody Marianne Faithfull.

México DF/ México: Are you really lost?

Are You Really Lost?

Are you really Lost? is a performance where bodies and light, which has a leading role, combine music, poetry and movement, with a clear purpose of thinking about human being in relation to its existence , its fears and anxieties, caused by the contemporary world. The fact of having defined the title in English, which is taken from an album of a Chilean musician residing in Germany, definitely puts globalization in a very first place.

Rosario/ Argentina: Blut! Una pareja de sangre

Blut! Una Pareja De Sangre

This is the story of two brothers who are condemned to repeat, or represent, the story of their own parents, from whom they have inherited a restaurant. This inheritance ends up making the situation more and more weird as time goes by. All this has to do with the intricate bond coming from their father´s command and their unquestionable and unchangeable mother’s recipes.

Buenos Aires / Argentina: Rodando

Rodando

The question about the genre of this performance has no answer. Is it theatre? Is it an oral narration? Is it telling the story of a movie ? Because this “one man show for a man in a wheelchair,” as defined by the authors, is a detailed description and narration of a road movie genre film being shot and projected through its words and gestures.

Santiago / Chile: Diciembre

Diciembre

December is one of the most impertinent plays of latin american theatre of the last years. This is the story of three brothers who in the year 2014, and during a war Chile is having against Peru and Bolivia, will have to discuss about politics and shall be forced to share their views on the concepts of commitment and nationalism since one of them has been called to join the army a day after Christmas. Simultaneously, as if this was not enough, the Mapuches in the south, succeeded in achieving the separation from the rest of the country and created their own state; Mapu.

Película Sorpresa

Poznan / Polonia: Los expedientes / Teczki

Los Expedientes / Teczki

This is a “documentary play” where the artists use the secret files that the Communist government kept between 1975 and 1983, detailing information about themselves , their contacts and friends. This information is linked to some personal mails that the artists themselves wrote at that time. There are moments of a very painful confessional atmosphere. Los expedientes, which presents extremely painful testimonials, puts on stage a complex aesthetic and political universe where we are confronted with a harsh truth of which we are all part of.

Buenos Aires / Argentina: Dóciles y útiles

Dóciles Y Útiles

The institution these automats belong to, has decided to organise the 11th Inter-State Contest and demands, for the event to be successful, that their young bodies produce all the necessary they need, in order to win. Those who disobey will be murdered. This performance shows, through humour, the whole universe of production by putting special emphasis on the alienation and the human being’s loss of essence.