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This
year the festival is proud to present three plays and one reading
as part of the Theatre Arts component of the festival. This great
development has been coordinated and directed by actor and playwright
Rosa Laborde.
LIZARDBOY
Written and Performed by Victor Gomez.
ìThere are Two options in life: To fight or to hideî.
Lizardboy, the ìtrouble-makingî rascal from the barrio is escaping
from another furious neighbour who, once again, has come to beat him
up. From his secret hiding place he unravels the story of an ìup-side-downî
family from the emerging Colombian middle class of the early 1980ís.
The spotlight shines on the characters, colours and contradictions
of a country in the middle of a landslide, seen through the eyes of
a mischievous nine-year-old boy.
September 12 8:00pm & September 13 9:30pm
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Victor
Gomez is an award winning actor, writer and filmmaker from Colombia.
Onstage he recently starred in Manitoba Theatre Centresí international
co-production of The Night Of The Iguana. His short adaptation of
Shakespeareís Richard III, Ricardo Against Ricardo, won best Canadian
Experimental Film at the Alucine Film Festival. He has dozens of credits
in both North American and Colombian Film & TV.
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The Colour of My Heart
Francisca Zentilli - Writer and Performer
Kimahli Powell - Director
Length: 60 minutes.
A personal journey to a sense of place explored through storytelling,
physicality and dance. We all come from somewhere. We all
have a story. And along with our experiences, our choices
and other people’s perceptions; it colours our lives.
Some things change with you, others stay with you forever.
In the end we create a context for ourselves. What’s
yours?
Francisca Zentilli (Kika) is an actress, a dancer, a painter
and a writer. The Colour Of My Heart is an attempt to reconcile
her Chilean roots with her Canadian life. First workshopped
as part of the Rhubarb! Festival at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
in February, then at rock.paper.sistahs 4 at the Theatre Passe
Muraille Backspace in April, both the story and it’s
telling continue to evolve.
September
12 9:30pm & September 13 8:00pm
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MADRE
Written & Directed by Beatriz Pizano
Madre addresses a painful part of the immigrant experience:
what to do about our aging parents when we live worlds apart,
physically and emotionally. The play confronts attitudes toward
women in a society obsessed with avoiding the aging process
by looking at it not as a disease, but as a rite of passage.
Beatriz Pizano is the founder and artistic director of Aluna
Theatre. She was the recipient of the Urjo Kareda Emerging
Artists grant from the Tarragon Theatre. Her play For Sale
received two Dora awards in 2004 as well as a nomination for
outstanding new play. She recently wrote the CBC Radio Drama
The Communion. Madre has been developed through Nightwood
Theatre’s Groundswell Festival.
Theatrical reading. September 14 at 8:00pm |
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IDEOLOGY
Written & Performed by Juana Awad
A short piece about the clash of paradigms and the paradox
of love, seen through the eyes of a daughter.
Juana Awad’s stage credits include Macbeth (Modern Times
Stage Company, Theatre Centre) and Hysteria festival of Women.
She has also written and directed several short experimental
films, which have been screened at; Argos Arts Festival (Brussels),
UnIdentified (Paris), InsideOut (Toronto), Women of Color
Film Festival (Berkeley), Expresion en Corto (Mexico), Rio
de Janeiro Short Film Festival (Brazil), Larzish Film Festival
(India), among others.
September 12,13 & 14 at 7:30pm
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LOCATION:
ALLEY THEATRE WORKSHOP 12 OSSINGTON AVENUE NORTH OF QUEEN.
NOTE: Limited sitting, please arrive early.
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TICKET
PRICES: BY DONATION ONLY (SUGGESTED $10.00).
NO RESERVATIONS
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