27th Sept – 6th October 2013 CASA FESTIVAL
01 Jul, 2013
CASA LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2013
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 the Americas (UCL) 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 the Americas (UCL).
CASA 2013 will feature outstanding work from leading theatre companies from Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay alongside new work by emerging UK-based Latin American theatre-makers, live music events, visual arts exhibitions, workshops and debates.
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 companies 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 grand dame of Uruguayan theatre Nidia Telles with her heart-warming show about our search for home entitled El País de las Maravillas (Wanderland) and 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 Jarquin. More details will be announced in July.
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For further information, images and to organise interviews, please contact Lora and Colette on press@casafestival.org.uk
CASA is supported by Arts Council England through a grant for the arts.
