“LA MANO: Tales of
the End of the World” theatricalizes three short narratives dealing with
apocalypse, chaos, babel, violence and beauty.
Set in a Caribbean island, the stories take magic realism to the limits
of both, true life and hallucination.
Text and direction
by Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya. In collaboration with: Alejandra
Maldonado, Geoffrey Lasalle, Rafael Pagán, Christopher Cancel, Suácer
Marmolejos and Milton Ramírez Malavé.
Shows:
Wednesday, August
31, 2011 / 7:00 P.M.
Thursday September
1, 2011 / 7:00 P.M.
Friday, September
2, 2011 / 7:00 P.M.
Saturday, September
3, 2011 / 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, September
4, 2011 / 7:00 P.M.
At Theatre for the
New City, 155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and
East 10th Streets, New York
A Casa Cruz de la Luna production for
Theatre for the New City´s Dream-Up
Festival. Tickets ($15)
available soon at:
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=LAM4
MORE: Based on a new
published narrative anthology by Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya, La Mano
centers on three stories of quotidian horror.
In "Julia and the Jogger of Cemeteries," an eight-year old
girl who fervently believes in the end of the world is confronted by a jogger
who runs through cemeteries thinking that the tombstones are as infinite as the
world itself. In "Slaughterhouse,"
the encounter of a mature man with a much younger man who affirms that they had
studied together in grade-school serves as a starting point for an exploration
of memory as they walk through phantasmagorical towns on
the island. Finally, "Readings from
the Apocalypse" meta-theatrically presents a stage director who feels the
century has not yet ended and tries to use matter (animate and inanimate) to
achieve a staging of the point after the end.
