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Dear Educator,
As you plan for the new school year, I hope you will consider enhancing your curriculum by joining us for the 34th Season of GALA Hispanic Theatre, ¡A todo corazón!. You and your students will be entertained, challenged, and provided an opportunity to learn more about the cultures of Latin America and Spain through their dramaturgy when you attend the productions of this season. GALA’s 2009-10 season focuses on modern and contemporary plays that explore the complexity of human and family relationships, and cultural identities in a changing world.
“Our new season,” states the Artistic Director, Hugo Medrano, “is anchored by celebrated authors Federico García Lorca and Nilo Cruz, and includes cutting-edge artists who are shaping the future of Latino arts.”
At GALA we believe in the power of theater to inspire and to help students reflect, question, and learn. For that reason, we make our productions accessible so that students can experience live theater and expand their knowledge about the arts, history, and issues affecting their lives and communities.
As part of our efforts to make a GALA performance more rewarding for both you and your students, we can provide the following:
- A copy of the script in Spanish or English (available upon request).
- Educational supplement with information about the play, playwright(s), historical context, and suggested readings, that can be emailed or provided in hard copy the day of the performance.
- Post-performance discussions with the actors, director, and invited guests, where students and professors can inquire about the play and production.
- Student group rate of ten or more is $15.00 per ticket for scheduled performances on Fridays at 10:30 am. (Reg. Prices are $34 and $36)
- Free educator ticket per 20 students who attend the performance
The three productions offered as student matinees are:
By Rafael Spregelburd (Argentina)
Directed by José Carrasquillo
U.S. Premiere
Sept 17 – Oct 11, 2009
Trying to escape his oppressive reality though his dreams, a young man navigates between a domineering mother and a sister who donated a kidney to him as a child. Spregelburd is the leading proponent of Argentina’s new dramaturgy. A darkly humorous tale of a dysfunctional family suspended between wakefulness and dreams. Like a crisp breeze, Spregelburd’s language coolly takes us to the most absurd place as if it were the most natural. In Spanish with English supertitles.
El sueño lúcido consiste en tomar conciencia durante el sueño de que se está soñando; y con práctica, el soñador puede llegar a modificar el desarrollo del sueño. Con esta premisa, el joven protagonista de esta inteligente y humorística obra intenta sobrellevar su familia disfuncional contraponiendo a lo insoportable de la realidad, lo soportable del sueño. Con un padre ausente, una madre avasalladora, y la hermana que cuando niño le donó un riñón, Lucas se mueve en un mundo que oscila entre el espanto y la risa Rafael Spregelburd es uno de los puntales de la nueva dramaturgia argentina. Su obra, refrescante y polémica, no encaja en ninguna corriente o etiqueta. Sus piezas han sido traducidas a varios idiomas y han obtenido los premios Tirso de Molina (España), Casa de las Américas (Cuba) y Argentores (Argentina).
**Special student weekday matinees for Lúcido are Wednesday, September 23, 20 and October 7, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.**
By Nilo Cruz (Cuba- USA)
Directed by Abel López
Washington Premiere
Feb 4-28, 2010
An estranged daughter reunites with her father, a painter in Granada, only to fall in love with his 20 year-old Moroccan houseboy and sometime-lover. The presence of the ghost of the poet Federico García Lorca, who visits the painter and becomes his conscience, adds a sense of magic to this play about impossible love, infidelity and sacrifice. This acclaimed Cuba American author received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Anna in the Tropics. In English with Spanish supertitles.
Una joven distanciada de su padre por muchos años se reúne con él en su casa en Granada (España), donde él pinta, vive con su compañera y un atractivo joven marroquí que es su criado. El equilibrio de la casa se desmorona cuando la hija se enamora de este joven. La presencia del fantasma del poeta Federico García Lorca, que visita al pintor convirtiéndose en su conciencia, pone un toque mágico y poético en esta obra sobre el amor imposible, la infidelidad y el sacrificio. Cruz es un valioso exponente de la nueva dramaturgia norteamericana, sus obras han cosechado éxito a lo largo de todo el país, incluida Ana en el trópico (Premio Pulitzer).
**Special student weekday matinees for Beauty of the Father are Fridays, February 12, 19 and 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.**
By Federico García Lorca (Spain)
Directed by Adhemar Bianchi
Washington Premiere
April 8-May 2, 2010
Influenced by his passionate enthusiasm for the marionettes of his childhood, Lorca combines his unique poetic lyricism and the rough folk humor of the traditional trickster in this bawdy puppet farce where the elderly lustful, Cristóbal takes the young and innocent Rosita as an unwilling bride. Acclaimed Argentine director Bianchi and puppeteer Ximena Bianchi re-imagine this puppet play set against the tense and inflamed landscape of the Spanish Civil War. In Spanish with English supertitles.
Al comienzo de esta obra de títeres, el autor anuncia: “…el poeta sabe que el público oirá con alegría y sencillez expresiones y vocablos que nacen de la tierra y que servirán de limpieza en una época en que las maldades y sentimiento turbios llegan hasta lo más hondo de los hogares.” Qué más adecuado para nuestros días, entonces, que esta tragicomedia picante y fresca del gran poeta español. En ella, la bella y sensual Rosita es prometida por su madre a Don Cristóbal, un viejo rico y lascivo; pero en la noche de bodas, la jovencita que está enamorada del pobretón Currito, deja muy mal parado a Don Cristóbal. En este colorido montaje del aclamado director Adhemar Bianchi y la experta titiritera Ximena Bianchi, la picaresca farsa está actuada por soldados del ejército republicano, quienes la salpican con populares canciones de la guerra civil española.
**Special student weekday matinees for El retablillo de Don Cristóbal are Fridays, April 16, 23 and 30, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.**
If you would like more information about our student matinee program or to make reservations for the productions, please contact me at 202-234-7174 or at sandra@galatheatre.org.
We hope to see you at the theater! ¡A todo corazón!
Education Outreach Coordinator
GALA Hispanic Theatre
P.O. BOX 43209
Washington, DC 20010
www.galatheatre.org
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