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SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA
Excerpts, panel discussion with Catalan Theater Artists + a full off-site reading series
3:00-5:30pm | Elebash Hall
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and The Institut Ramon Llull proudly present:
SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA will showcase the work of contemporary Catalan theater artists, in collaboration with New York directors and translators. Prelude welcomes Barcelona-based writers and will present excerpts of Solavaya by Àngels Aymar (dir. Hillary Spector/trans. Caridad Svich), Offside by Sergi Belbel (dir. Mallory Catlett/trans. Marion Peter Holt), Girls Shouldn’t Play Soccer by Marta Buchaca (dir. May Adrales/trans. Rowan Ricardo Phillips) and Against Progress by Esteve Soler (dir. Dan Safer/trans. Hillary Gardner) Plus, a full reading series to be hosted by The Lark, New Georges, Repertorio Español & La MaMa.
Presented in partnership with The Institut Ramon Llull, with additional support from Sala Beckett
EXCERPTS
- Offside by Sergi Belbel; translated by Marion Peter Holt & directed by Mallory Catlett
- Girls Shouldn’t Play Soccer by Marta Buchaca; translated by Rowan Ricardo Phillips & directed by May Adrales
- Against Progress by Esteve Soler; translated by Hillary Gardner & directed by Dan Safer
- Solavaya by Àngels Aymar; translated by Caridad Svich & directed by Hillary Spector
DISCUSSION AND Q&A
- Panel discussion with Playwrights + Directors + Translators
PLAYWRIGHTS
Photo Courtesy of the Artist
Àngels Aymar is an actress, playwright and director. Resident playwright at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya from 2006 - 09 (premiere Trueta). Author of more than twenty plays translated and published in several languages. Her plays have been performed in Europe, Latin America and the US. In 1992 the Generalitat de Catalunya funded her internship at The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia. In 2004 The Unfinished Smile was performed at the FIL of Guadalajara (Mexico). She is the first Catalan playwright invited to the Pen World Voices (NYC 2008). In 2009 her play, La Indiana was performed at Universidad de las Artes y las Letras de La Havana, Cuba.
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Sergi Belbel is a leading Catalan playwright, director, translator and the Director of Barcelona’s Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC) since 2006. His more than twenty plays include Caresses, After the Rain, Blood, Planck’s Time, Strangers, and Mobile. He has translated plays by Molière, Goldoni, Koltès, and Beckett and has directed Shakespeare, Calderón, Mamet, Benet i Jornet, Marivaux & De Filipo, among others. His plays have been staged throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as in the United States and Australia. In 1999, the French production of After the Rain was awarded the Molière Prize for Best Comedy.
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Marta Buchaca is a playwright and director who recently premiered A mi no em diguis amor (2010) at the Theatre Nacional de Catalunya. Other works include: Plastilina (2009) (XXXV Premi de Teatre Ciutat d’Alcoi and Runner-up for the Premio Marqués de Bradomín 2007 at Sala Beckett); Les nenes no haurien de jugar a futbol, (Grec 2009 and Versus Teatre 2010), L’Olor sota la pell (2007) (V Premi Joaquim Bartrina de Reus 2005, Sala Beckett) and Emergència (2006). In television she has worked as a scriptwriter for El cor de la ciutat (TV3) and is currently a scriptwriter for the series La Riera (TV3).
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Esteve Soler is a playwright, journalist and theatre teacher from Barcelona. His play Against Progress was selected from among 646 plays to participate in the Stückenmarkt 2008 (Berlin Theatertreffen) and was premiered in Santiago de Chile (Deusches shule), Barcelona (Sala Beckett), Munich (Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel), Nordhausen (Theater Nordhausen), Pont-a-Mousson (in the Mousson d’ Été festival), Paris (during the festival of belgian theatre), Athens (Synergío Theatre) and Biel-Solothurn (Theater Biel-Solothurn). The play will be premiered soon in Brussels, Aachen and Caracas. He has also written plays for the National Theatre in Catalonia (I am someone else) and Theatre Lliure (Before the man).
FULL READING SERIES
Sept 30 @ 7pm: Offside by Sergi Belbel @ The Lark (939 8th Ave. btwn 55th & 56th)
Oct 3 @ 7pm: Girls Shouldn’t Play Soccer by Marta Buchaca @ New Georges - The Room (520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 326)
Oct 4 @ 6:30: Solavaya by Àngels Aymar @ Repertorio Español (138 East 27th Street)
Oct 5 @ 7 pm: Against Progess by Esteve Soler @ La MaMa (1st Floor Theatre 74A East 4th Street)
About the SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA hosts:
A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER brings together actors, directors, playwrights and audiences to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson. www.larktheatre.org
NEW GEORGES is an award-winning nonprofit theater company which produces ambitiously theatrical new plays downtown; and is a play and artist development organization, providing an artistic home to some of the most adventurous theater artists (who are women) working today. www.newgeorges.org
Repertorio Español was founded in 1968 to introduce the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre in distinctive, quality productions. Throughout its history, Repertorio has introduced thousands of adult and student audiences to the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre, from classic Spanish drama, nearly the entire canon of Federico Garcia Lorca to works by new and/or emerging Hispanic American theatre artists. www.repertorio.org
La MaMa Experimental Theatre is a world-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 48 years La MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures. We believe that in order to flourish, art needs the company of colleagues, the spirit of collaboration, the comfort of continuation, a public forum in which to be evaluated and fiscal support. www.lamama.org
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