2006 U.S. / MEXICO
PLAYWRIGHT EXCHANGE
presented in collaboration with
The U.S. / Mexico Playwright Exchange is a 10-day residency and theatrical dialogue between 5 Mexican playwrights, 5 US playwrights, and the Lark community. Through the translation of plays (into both English and Spanish) and the sharing of artistic processes through workshops and public readings, this program provides a space for creative exchange between artists and audiences of both cultures.
The residency culminated in an evening entitled
THE WORD EXCHANGE
October 12 at Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
it featured excerpts of the
following translated plays:
ADELA AND JUANA |
EVENTS WITH LIFE'S LEFTOVERS |
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By Richard Viqueira Translated by Andrea Thome |
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Tuesday, October 10 @ 11am Tuesday, October 10 @ 2:30pm King Herod delays his decision about whether or not to massacre the innocents and initiates a trial against a newborn in order to demonstrate the proof of mankind’s ambition. What he doesn’t know is that this trial will throw into doubt his very identity, as well as his standing as a voice of Justice.
Wednesday, October 11 @ 11am During a meeting of Insomniacs, the 4 th-floor tenants of an apartment building discuss the most painful ways of punishing the first fish who emerged from the ocean onto land, initating the evolution of species out of water. This fish committed a basic mistake: it forgot that air is not breathable. One tenant finds a way to reverse the fish’s error: to return to the water. The play follows people’s ways of returning to the oceanic flow in the face of walls, floors and divisions. Wednesday, October 11 @ 2pm |
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Wednesday, October 11 @ 4:30pm After the death of their mother, two little boys (8 and 11) are taken by their father to live with their grandmother, while he sets out to United States in search of the American Dream. He promises he’ll come back for them, but the months pass and he never does. When their grandmother dies unexpectedly, they have to decide whether to stay at their relative’s home as undesired guests or to leave and try to find their father, becoming seekers of a promised land themselves. A two-chacaracter tragicomedy that paints a moving picture of family fragmentation. |
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Thursday, October 12 @ 7:30pm The program culminated in a special evening entitled THE WORD EXCHANGE: EXCERPTS OF NEW PLAYS BY MEXICAN AND US WRITERS. The evening included a concert reading of excerpts from the participants’ plays, presented in both English and Spanish, and was followed by a reception celebrating the work that was presented. |
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Additionally, Lark's programming is generously supported by Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Theatre Wing, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (administered by Theatre Communications Group), The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The Dramatists Guild Fund, The John Golden Fund, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, FONCA (Mexico Fund for Arts and Culture), The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State arts agency. |
