Decrevi
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 Posted: 16 Oct 2005 03:18 AM Post subject: Mexicali a Secas at the Ford Theater |
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The DVDs or [color=green]Villa y Zapata for a theater play. I hope it's good because I'm going to have to pay a whole $30.00 and dinner for two.[/color]
http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-ca-mexicali16oct16,0,2790323.story?track=widget
THEATER
Slim means, big dreams
A Mexicali troupe struggling to be heard gets to share its talents at a Spanish-language festival in Los Angeles.
By Reed Johnson
Times Staff Writer
October 16, 2005
THERE'S a simple rule one should always observe in Mexico's vast, unforgiving northern wastelands, says Ángel Norzagaray: Move too fast, and you'll dry out and die.
So Norzagaray has developed what he calls a "desert aesthetic," a list of artistic guidelines for making theater on the edge of nature's blast furnace. First, do away with inessential action and extraneous dialogue. Second, pare sets and props to a minimum: a red clown's nose, some strategically placed chairs, a long, narrow paper roll painted to look like a stretch of endless asphalt highway.
Third, and most important, never forget where you are — or how you got there. The scorching terrain along the U.S. border can be a desolate, even deadly place... |
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