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Tennessee Williams in Caracas, Venezuela

18 years ago we could have seen or met for the first and last time, but it was not. We pass from the other side of Eliseo Hotel in Manhattan, when the police took his body to the morgue. We knew it, hours later, from our apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, after finishing a task information about the devaluation of the bolivar had decreed that President Luis Herrera Campins, because those were the times when we work to The Caracas daily, from New York.
This simple story of a journalist who did not stop, as is customary, to pry into what was happening beyond their noses, we prevented from learning more about the impact of the death of the famous playwright Tennessee Williams, or Thomas Lanier Williams III was born on March 26, 1911 in the United States, Columbus (Mississippi) and killed on February 25, 1983.
Now, to celebrate the first 100 years after his birth, clusters HEBU Caracas counterplay Theatre and Theatre of the Centennial event organized Tennessee Williams (1911-2011) with a selection of his dramaturgy. It is a festival that includes not only the season's most emblematic works of American, but also the presentation of a cycle of seven short texts of the author and three shows inspired by his stories.
So HEBU Theatre and Theatre of counterplay celebrate in style the centenary of an author who decided to break the rules of the theater of his time and take risks that are still considered as such. Talking about the homosexual condition, sex and condition of black men are the topics covered in the works of Tennessee Williams Centenary (1911-2011). The festival will take place at the Cultural Trasnocho 8 April to 24 July. Additionally there will be ten
forums covering cinema, drama and documentaries Williams about his life.
The series of events begin with the staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, which won the Pulitzer in 1958 and filmed in 1951, which premieres Friday, April 8, in the plural. Will be in theaters for 10 weeks until June 12, with features on Fridays and Saturdays at 9:00 pm and Sunday at 7:00 PM.
A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois, a woman over 30 years of age, with delusions of grandeur, taking refuge in an invented world, arrogant and unbalanced. Having finished a history of several generations of debtors with the loss of the family farm and in youth have suffered the trauma of the suicide of her husband, is presented in the modest home of a working class neighborhood in New Orleans where her sister Stella, that is perfectly adapted to urban life and married with Polish Stanley Kowalski, a worker inconsiderate and rude, but adores her. Fastidious temperament and delusions of grandeur of Blanche collide with pragmatism to the death of his brother, the corners from the start to get to inform all that long ago ceased to be the prim which is intended, which was expelled from work to seduce children, who in his hometown is known for its sexual promiscuity and has no money, no friends millionaires as intended.
However, the version directed by Orlando Arocha has a national context and current. This is not a suburb of New Orleans, but one that is more connected to what is commonplace for Caracas. There are sounds of reggaeton, a stage in which elements are used to encode the Venezuelan piece as a whole, rather than timeless. This Tennessee Williams
Centenary (1911-2011) will simultaneously with the filing of like rain Talk to me: Seven short plays by Tennessee Williams . The presentations of this staging, directed by Diana Volpe, will be for eight weeks from 16 April to 5 June, with features on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM, in the plural.
Talk to me like the rain is a collection of texts: Tell me like rain and let me hear , Auto attests, The case of petunias trampled , I can not imagine tomorrow , The Marquise of lotion kills lice , The Long Goodbye and A perfect analysis by a parrot . Everyone talks about the loneliness, the decay of society and the pitfalls of love. After careful preparation, the cast made up of 19 players displayed their talents on stage. This cycle of short plays was part of the final sample of a workshop staging that Volpe issued in 2010. This is the reading of Williams which presents a universe of characters inherently human, damaged, brave, fallible and hopeful.
The third part of the festival is the presentation of misconduct, three shows based on stories of Tennessee Williams: Women owned (17 to 26 June), Tenn / Tom (from 1 to 10 July) and Q & Q (Queens and Queers ) 15 to 24 July) will be presented in the plural. Features: Fridays and Saturdays at 9:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm. Women In
owned , Williams explores female sexuality as few writers of his time through stories uploaded and squeaky. Ricardo Nortier heads. Tenn / Tom is an autobiographical view of American author, directed by Juan Jose Martin, in which stories are intertwined in the family as a place of harmony and nostalgia, but also as a place of solitude. Q & Q is the author's homosexual side, which is revealed in these stories defiantly rude and ruthless. Bouley runs July. The festival Centennial
Tennessee Williams (1911-2011) will, in addition to performing arts events, with a series of ten films, forums about the playwright. This will take place in the Paseo Cinemas every Wednesday from May 4 to July 6. Faced with an explosion
theater of this type, one expects to enjoy the maximum, although we regret that there is no organized or anything similar to Venezuela's Cesar Rengifo, a the great fighters for the national drama. It is possible that in other times, other men, he made not one but multiple tributes to whom it has claimed the saga of popular Venezuelan civilian or military.
Who gets to bell the cat?
And the fault is not Diana Arocha Orlando Volpe or who already have enough with what they do, and they always do well also the fault of others who are like the cat Flora, to use a popular expression.

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The March 8, 1983, in Maracay, was created on March 8 Theatre group, under the influence from the statement Women's Decade (1975-1985), by the Unesco. Since then, integrated, with skilled theater people for acting, directing and playwriting, the group has staged numerous productions in theaters, plazas, streets and unconventional spaces in different regions of Venezuela, as well as in Spain and Central American countries. Maracay
The group came to Caracas to present his show Last creed, with ragged performances of Laura Vargas, Angie Chourio and Lorraine Romero, Room Cabrujas, Los Palos Grandes. After a short conversation with the director and playwright Lali Argemi Armengol, we have this interview that allows to know the important work of these valuable feminist theater people Aragua state.
- Is the only exclusive group of women in Venezuela?
"I think so. In other countries is different, as in Mexico, Colombia, England, Spain, USA and Australia. Gatherings and festivals of women evidenced. What's unique is referred to actresses, the drama and direction.
- What brought them to create a women's group and thus start a task in which they carry 28?
-Stop being spoken. Stage a different look, also opposed, it gradually internalized as a group. The value of our subjectivity, our stories and the path taken by others, faced with the place assigned to women in the world, we headed into the path of research and experimentation, social and theatrical. We take pleasure to the transgression.
"Our initial interest was vindictive, wanted to disclose the most relevant articles of the Civil Code reform, which were in and how it would affect the new legal status of women, the routine of family relationships and leave the next chapter that we included and to minors. Represented an important milestone was to get rid of some of the legal burden discriminative, only a part. The social is something else, customs, and nineteenth-century social imaginary spin still inside homes, schools, everywhere ... still missing, although the social legitimacy of the discourse of women is far less muted than when we started.
- What reactions have received from the community and other theater groups?
"In the past, in the early years of street theater picked up a little of everything, applause, bad words and bad gestures, a part of the public, especially women, grateful that we were in the street talking about our rights and legislative changes and other, was angry with our presence and speech. It was an exciting time. We invading public space. In special circumstances we threw ice, tomatoes, eggs. If not for the ice, we could imagine we were in an Elizabethan theater.
"As data on stage Maracay, 26 years ago, the theater group decided to found the Casa de la Mujer Juana Ramírez, an NGO working in terms of women's human rights and the specific area of \u200b\u200bcare and prevention violence against women.
"We have a Maracay public that follows us - that from 1992 we will see in theaters and soon on the streets, and scenic values \u200b\u200band discursive our proposals. With theater groups in the region have always shared amicably and professionally, occasional disqualification, but I do not remember. For the theater industry in general are not any reference. Making Theatre from a feminist perspective, it seems not wake up "curiosity" beyond our scope.
- Are you aware that gender makes a theater, a theater or female?
"We place ourselves in the stream of feminist theater. Women's theater does not tell us anything, or if you say, we did not identify. It sounds something like the eternal feminine and stuff. In our situation in Venezuela and Latin America - as ruthless for women - one wonders how the feminist theater has permeated the theatrical creation, while the production with gender stereotypes, dosed with something that seems liberating or "pop", with the intention to continue saying the same thing can be so successful. Well, it's a way to locate socially and theatrically.
- Do you identify with feminism?
-Si. It is a civilizational challenge. A model bloodless, indeed.
- And the play about cross-dressing and / or transsexuality as contemplated?
"We have not done works touching on themes of LGBT communities. I have some references to groups that address this reality with the aim of raising awareness, sharing and make it visible and others, to cause reflections on our concept of gender construction. One way to challenge the binary male / female and criticize the machismo. Marked Hernan is the author of an excellent investigation of theatrical transvestism.
- What do they expect the theater and why are not delivered to the movies? First
-cultural policies change annihilating. Meanwhile, continue doing theater of resistance. It is unthinkable to sacrifice the pleasure of creating and providing the appropriate process of its own discourse, which crosses the way of seeing and being and has no end.
"The theater is one of our facilities to continue in the attempt to confine the" Aristotle " then and now, builders, experts apostles misogyny. Cinema is an open door. At this moment there is nothing concrete.
- What is the intellectual position to the status of women in Venezuela and the world ?
"The difference that makes sex between men and women are reversed in a socially constructed inequality. Western patriarchal society is working with strategic ways to deny or to lose track of what they claim or what happens to women, is a repetitive story. Each historical-political stage is how to intervene to mask what we imagine to be and what we really are. At this point, for example, women should be a show for others.
"The general ignorance of the history of women, that the feminist researchers, historians, painters, writers, photographers and playwrights are dragging out, the lack of real power, the absence in positions of power, the body confiscated with the habit of denying or naturalize dissatisfaction, or brutal situations and their consequences in real and symbolic death, strengthened the culture of denial, concealment and silence of desire. Trace this history is still a challenge for a large majority of women at the time called for the release of women and revolution technology. The reality of the women in patriarchal cultures, not Western, still we can talk about the naturalization of more violence and limitations.
- What is its intellectual position to the social condition of man in Venezuela and the world?
-Traditional masculinity is being challenged - as femininity-by men who are rethinking how patterns heirs tax. They are also tired of the patriarchal model, which demands a way of being, thinking, feeling and willing. I do not mean those who speak of their changes because they wash dishes or cook, this is something internal, transcendental.
- What are your plans for coming years?
"The plans start with the wishes ... we want to show the work we do at home and out without so many difficulties and limitations and have a theatrical magic grotto. Itziar Elizondo says to put words and statements to the silence is a collective duty and civilization, both in the theater, literature, visual media. I agree.
- Friends or rivals of his fellow theater people?
"Nothing to see. We scored in the rivalry, is an energy drain.
"He said that the women are actresses for their equal social status and sexual Do you agree with that? "What a question
as paradoxical ... Is it biblical books or confessions of the Inquisition?