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Public Theaters
SymposiumsThe main goal of this meeting, coordinated by Guillermo Heras, is to discuss different cooperation, interrelation, and interchange strategies in the specific area of activities carried out by the Public Centres of Stage Production, whether they are local, regional, autonomous, provincial, national or transnational.
For further information: fiba@festivalesbsas.gov.ar
Lamp scenic movements
WorkshopsIUNA - Sede VenezuelaWorkshops require previous inscription and selection, open until September 25th. For further information please write to: talleresfiba@festivales.gob.ar
A group of people will be instructed in this unsual dance movement. This group will later work on the presentation of Are you really lost? during FIBA.
Octavio Zeivy – México DF / Mexico
Time: from 10am to 2pm
This workshops lasts 5 days: from October 12th to October 16th.
Text as music: its rhythmical and musical dimensions
WorkshopsEl Excéntrico de la 18ª - UNSAMWorkshops require previous inscription and selection, open until September 25th. For further information please write to: talleresfiba@festivales.gob.ar
It is a workshop aimed at musicians. In the first phase, attenders will write a text with rhythmical and musical indications and, in the second phase, they are going to look for means to interpret the text with either music, voice or mixing of these two.
David Lescot – Paris / France
Time: from 10:30 am to 1pm
From training to staging – The creative work of the actor
WorkshopsEl Muererío TeatroWorkshops require previous inscription and selection, open until September 25th. For further information please write to: talleresfiba@festivales.gob.ar
This workshop proposes the production of scenic material by the actor/performer through the use of developed tools, used in a model acting training based on an intense physical and vocal work.
Diego Starosta – Buenos Aires / Argentina
Time: from 4pm to 5 pm
This workshop lasts 3 days: October 13th, 14th and 15th.
1st Edition Alfredo de la Guardia's Award
Book presentationsHarrodsA prestigious panel of judges: Moira Soto, Horacio Banega and Jorge Ricci, conferred the first-place award to María Natacha Koss for her play (The theatre and plastic arts) “El teatro y las artes plásticas” , while the second-place award went to (Caravaggio´s prostitutes .Difficulties in the passages between literature and theatre) “Las prostitutas de Caravaggio Problematizaciones acerca de los tránsitos entre literatura y teatro,” by Gabriel Fernández Chapo and the third place went to (The popular world on scene) “El mundo popular en escena,” by Alicia Beatriz Aisenberg.
Participants: Moira Soto, Horacio Banega, Jorge Ricci and appointed researchers.
Hamlet (1964)
Hamlet CameraHarrodsHamlet (1964)
United States, 191 minutes
Direction of Camera: Bill Colleran
Scene setting: John Gielgud
Production: Alfred W. Crown, John Heyman and William Sargent Jr.
Cinematography: Bill Colleran
Staging: Bruce B. Pierce
Production design: Ben Edwards
Cast: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Rose, George Voskovec, Hugh Alexander, Philip Coolidge and Christopher Culkin
Richard Burton starrs this version of John Gielgud in Broadway. The version was registered during a performance with the sole purpose of spreading the staging in cinema rooms. Under a contract, the copies were supposed to be destroyed. However, and fortunately, Burton ignored the deal and sent a copy to the British Film Institute and decided to keep another at home for himself.
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Córdoba / Argentina: Salsipuedes
ShowsAndamio 90'This is a town like any other town. With its hidden stories,its perversions and its secrets. There, three sisters are living at their recently deceased father's house. One of them has decided to follow the father’s commandment, while the others try to find the way to run away. Getting married or leaving town to study theatre seems to be the only two possibilities. By means of this play, Argüello Pitt not only pays tribute to Three Sisters by Chejov, but also shows his own critical view about art and its relation with work.
Gengangere / Spectres
Babel, the libraryBiblioteca Carlos Guido y SpanoA literary work by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian).
Text reading will be carried out in its original language and attendance will receive a translated copy upon entry.
Keiler Schtub / The basement
Babel, the libraryCasa de la LecturaA literary work by Leibush Peretz (Yiddish).
Text reading will be carried out in its original language and attendance will receive a translated copy upon entry.
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Praga / República Checa: El agujero negro / Cerná díra
ShowsTeatro SarmientoThe play is based on a minimum anecdote, very focused and narrowed within the stage space chosen: a mini-market at a Shell fuel station located in the central area of the United States,right in the 70’s. A waitress, a police officer who is in love, an interviewer, a young couple, and a super TV star and his manager, shall be thrown into a black hole where they are condemned, outside limits of time, to live a perpetual repetition.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Hamlet CameraHarrodsHamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Great Britain, 210 minutes
Direction: Rodney Bennett
Production: Cedric Messina
Edition: Dave Hillier
Production Desing: Don Homfray
Music: Dudley Simpson
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter, Lalla Ward, David Robb, Patrick Allen, Robert Swann, Jonathan Hyde, Geoffrey Bateman and Emrys James
In 1978, the BBC posed itself the challenge of giving a television register to the complete works of William Shakespeare. The different productions kept loyal to the original texts and counted on prestigious actors in the leading roles. There is no doubt that it is didactic television, but still in a model that is worth contemplating.
Barcelona / España: El dúo de la africana
ShowsTeatro AvenidaIn this fiction created by Albertí y Cunillé, the traditional Spanish Zarzuela Company “Santa Espina”, is on tour around a central american country called Nueva Peñaranda Republic which is ruled by a dictator that every night turns into a regular citizen to go out to party. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Governor , in charged, to rule. This argument is the setting for this zarzuela of great theatrical audacity. The original premiere of “ El dúo de la Africana ” took place in Madrid in 1893.
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Buenos Aires / Argentina: Cascarita, no luce ni cierra
ShowsLa RancheriaApparently it is a play about art, since its narrator is devoted to writing. However, this serves Iglesias as a starting point to deploy a cultural and ideological universe that will appeal to the empathy of the audience at first. Later he will unveil the hidden personality of this character that is far beyond being an ordinary man and does no longer cause sympathy, but he does cause horror.
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París / Francia: El efecto de Sergio / L’effet de Serge
ShowsTeatro San Martín - Sala Cunill CabanellasEvery week, Sergio invites his friends to offer them one-minute special-effects shows which are strongly supported by music. The ritual Sergio uses to welcome his guests, as well as the presentation of each ethereal and fragile moments of each performance, is the way to encourage, through humour, a reflection about art. In this representation, we (the audience) are invited to interact. We are also his guests.
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Buenos Aires / Argentina: Chiquito
ShowsLa CarboneraIn Chiquito, a former military man, a nurse, and a young man, Cascarita, rebuild, through fragments, part of the story. Gradually, the audience will see that the young man is one of the five hundred babies who were kidnapped by the last dictatorship. He is at the present undergoing the process of asking questions in order to reconstruct his true identity.
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MONTEVIDEO/ URUGUAY: ATP
ShowsCiudad Cultural KonexIn atp there is no script or story to be told; there are a series of basic instructions written on a sheet of paper that indicate the beginning and end of the performance. The three dancers, a woman and two men, will have to follow these instructions in order to conduct this experiment. Here, the performers play with the sound, which is recorded by the dancers through the use of microphones that are manipulated by them; all is essential; including the silence