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May 23, 24, 25, 26
Usine C
Spanish : 2h30 with intermission
F & E surtitles
Coproduction : Festival della Riviera Castiglioncello (Italy) / Emilia Romagna Teatro (Italy) / Festival de théâtre latino-américain de Bayonne (France) |
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Homer, our contemporary
Why put on the classics ? Because they help us understand who we are, where we come from and where we are going, and indeed, César Brie is utterly convinced of their relevance. Born and raised in Argentina, he now makes his home in Bolivia, where he is deeply involved in the life of his new country. He went back to The Iliad to better address the present, the thirst for power and conquest currently wreaking havoc around the world. He has assembled a troupe of artists from diverse backgrounds, integrating rites and traditions from all over Latin America. With a passionate interest in history and other stories, he has intermingled various texts, times and eras, combining Homer with Christa Wolf, Aeschylus with Euripides, creating a glorious theatrical amalgam. The stage is an empty space between a torn curtain and a bare wall that will be stained with the blood of the victims of this ritual, festive rereading of Homer’s epic poem. The Iliad is a takeover, an occupation of this definitive work of Western culture cast in the light of the Greek tragedies and the organized violence of our own era..
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© Paolo Porto
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César Brie’s vision is full of force, love and memory, and has the benefit of acquainting us some 3000 years after the fact with the eternal violence of mankind. Le Sud-Ouest
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Homer’s Iliad |
| ADAPTATION AND DIRECTION |
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César Brie |
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| MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS |
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Lucas Achirico |
| POPULAR MUSIC AND OTHER MUSICAL EXCERPTS |
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Cristian Mercado, Olivier Messiaen, Hugo Lowenthal, Luzmila Carpio, I. Kapellas : played by the Teatro de los Andes |
| COSTUME DESIGN |
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Maria Teresa Dal Pero, Soledad Ardaya, Alice Guimaraes, Giancarlo Gentilucci |
| MACRAMÉ |
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Danuta Zarzyka |
| SET DESIGN |
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Giancarlo Gentilucci |
| ARMOURS, MASK AND PUPPETS |
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Gonzalo Callejas |
| LIGHTING DESIGN |
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Silvio Martini et Giampaolo Nalli |
| ORGANIZATION |
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Giampaolo Nalli |
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| CAST |
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Lucas Achirico
Soledad Ardaya
César Brie
Gonzalo Callejas
Freddy Chipana
Maria Teresa Dal Pero
Alice Guimaraes
Jorge Jamarlli
Cristian Mercado
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César Brie
“ I might have lost my roots, but I have learned to love and understand the roots of others. ”
Exiled from Argentina in 1976 by the military dictatorship, César Brie lived and performed in Italy, Denmark and Poland before settling in Bolivia, where he pursued a strong desire to teach and to establish a professional theatre. In 1991 he founded Teatro de Los Andes, a theatre community installed in an abandoned farm near Sucre. The place has been transformed into a workshop for performance, teaching and creating new works. The troupe brings theatre to local communities: universities, neighbourhoods, public squares, villages and job sites. With the accent on encounter and dialogue, Brie takes full advantage of all the commixtures — of forms, cultures and races — to be found in his work.
Teatro de Los Andes : a miracle of theatre
Since its inception, El Teatro de Los Andes has produced 12 plays that are directly connected to the social and political climate of Bolivia, presenting them in their own country and elsewhere in South America. Their publication El tonto del pueblo (The Village Idiot) is distributed throughout Latin America. César Brie’s training programs have resulted in the creation of five professional theatre companies, two international theatre festivals and a rich network of exchanges and collaborations among South American companies.
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