FESTIVAL ARCHIVES

XXVI INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC THEATRE FESTIVAL OF MIAMI | A TRIBUTE TO CHILE

2011 PROGRAM

The Raw, The Cooked, The Rotten
Thursday and Friday, July 7 and 8 | 8:30pm
TEATRO IMAGEN | Santiago, Chile

LO CRUDO, LO COCIDO, LO PODRIDO (The Raw, The Cooked, The Rotten)

Written by Marco Antonio de la Parra | Directed by Gustavo Meza
Three shadowy waiters cloistered in a restaurant by the name of "The Immortals" insist on observing the empty rules of a bygone world as they await the return of the glories of yesteryear. (In Spanish)
Carnival Studio Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center | 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
TICKETS: 305.949.6722 | 866.949.6722 (toll free) | www.arshtcenter.org
Shakespeare's Women
Friday, July 8 and 15 and Saturday, July 9 and 16 | 8:30pm
PROMETEO THEATRE | Miami, Florida, USA

MUJERES DE SHAKESPEARE (Shakespeare's Women)

Written and directed by Neher Jacqueline Briceño
Inspired by the inexhaustible Elizabethan universe of female characters, this dramatic piece is based on six plays of the most famous author of all time. (In Spanish with English supertitles)
Prometeo Theatre, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
TICKETS: 305.237.3262 | www.prometeotheatre.com
Barroom Love
Saturday, July 9 | 8:30pm
Sunday, July 10 | 5:00pm
CENTRO GABRIELA MISTRAL, GAM | Santiago, Chile

AMORES DE CANTINA (Barroom Love)

Written by Juan Radrigán | Directed by Mariana Muñoz
A musical tragicomedy that speaks of love, lovelessness, social exclusion and the sense of living in a devastated homeland. (In Spanish)
Carnival Studio Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center | 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
TICKETS: 305.949.6722 | 866.949.6722 (toll free) | www.arshtcenter.org
The Coordinator
Monday, July 11 | 8:30pm
PROMETEO THEATRE | Miami, UNITED STATES

EL COORDINADOR (The Coordinator)

Written by Benjamín Galemiri | Directed by Beatriz J. Rizk
By means of humor, the play reflects on the battle of the sexes, instinctual impulses and the power games people play, using an elevator as a claustrophobic metaphor. (In Spanish)
Prometeo Theatre, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
Free admission
Carolina
Tuesday, July 12 | 8:30pm
PROMETEO THEATRE | Miami, FLORIDA, USA

CAROLINA

Written by Isidora Aguirre | Directed by Beatriz J. Rizk
A light comedy in which the author sets out on a search for the feminine soul, constantly inhibited by the social roles she is expected to play in 1955. (In Spanish)
Prometeo Theatre, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
Free admission
Just Say Rain, and It Rains
Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15 | 8:30pm
KABIA ESPACIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE GAITZERDI TEATRO | Bilbao, Spain

DECIR LLUVIA Y QUE LLUEVA (Just Say Rain, and It Rains)

Written by Kabia | Directed by Borja Ruiz
A meeting point that changes with the lives of the characters. Dreamlike visual poetry that combines dialogue, music and action. (Dance-Theatre)
Carnival Studio Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center | 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
TICKETS: 305.949.6722 | 866.949.6722 (toll free) | www.arshtcenter.org
The Metal Top
Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16 | 8:30pm
TROMPO METÁLICO | Buenos Aires, Argentina

EL TROMPO METÁLICO (The Metal Top)

Written and directed by Heidi Steinhardt
A child is cruelly subjected to all kinds of intellectual and physical practices designed to make her the perfect daughter to a conservative father. (In Spanish)
Teatro Prometeo, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
TICKETS: 305.237.3262 | www.prometeotheatre.com
The Dziu Bird
Saturday, July 16 | 5:45pm
AQUELARRE TEATRO | Mexico City, Mexico

EL PÁJARO DZIÚ (The Dziu Bird)

Written by Marcela Castillo | Directed by Anick Pérez and Marcela Castillo
Based on a beautiful, ancient legend that holds lessons about respect, courage and man's relationship to his environment. (In Spanish)
Key Biscayne Community Center | 10 Village Green Way, Key Biscayne
Free Admission | INFORMATION: 305.365.8900
Ropes
Saturday, July 16 | 8:30pm
Sunday, July 17 | 5:00pm
KRAKEN TEATRO | Mexico City, Mexico

CUERDAS (Ropes)

Written by Bárbara Colio | Directed by Richard Viqueira
A journey bedeviled by bonds, imbalances, knots and tangled desires. Three brothers rendezvous at an airport to meet the father who abandoned them. (In Spanish)
Carnival Studio Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center | 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
TICKETS: 305.949.6722 | 866.949.6722 (toll free) | www.arshtcenter.org
Little Mouse and His Impossible Love
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY
Sunday, July 17 | 2:00-7:00pm
LOS PROMETEÍTOS, children's troupe of Prometeo Theatre | Miami, Florida USA

RATONCILLO Y SU AMOR IMPOSIBLE

Written & directed by Neher Jacqueline Briceño
A little town where only happy mice live is threatened by the evil Ratontoro. Ratoncillo resolves to save his community and rescue sweet Ratoncilla. (In Spanish; for the entire family)
Miami-Dade College InterAmerican Campus | 627 SW 27th Avenue, Miami
Free admission
The Dziu Bird
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DAY
Sunday, July 17 | 6:00-7:00pm
AQUELARRE TEATRO | Mexico City, MEXICO

EL PÁJARO DZIÚ (The Dziu Bird - Special Children's Performance)

By Marcela Castillo | Directed by Anick Pérez and Marcela Castillo
Miami-Dade College InterAmerican Campus | 627 SW 27th Avenue, Miami
Free admission
The Speaking Room
Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23 | 8:30pm
ARTE & FRIENDS | Bogota, Colombia

EL LOCUTORIO (The Speaking Room)

Written by Jorge Díaz | Directed by Jorge Cao
A couple is torn between truth and fantasy, present and future, demanding, linking, protecting, denying, revealing, reviving and forgetting the reasons for their loneliness. (In Spanish)
Teatro Prometeo, Miami-Dade College, Wolfson Campus | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
TICKETS: 305.237.3262 | www.prometeotheatre.com
Wait Up for Me
Saturday, July 23 | 8:30pm
MOPA | Seville, Spain

(espérame despierto) (Wait Up for Me)

Choreographed by Juan Kruz de Garaio Esnaola
The piece invites us to contemplate, somewhat voyeuristically, the mysterious relationship between two characters who constantly play with the metaphor of abandonment. (Dance theatre)
MDC, Wolfson Campus, Auditorium, Bldg. 1, 2nd Floor | 300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
TICKETS: 305.237.3262 | www.prometeotheatre.com
The Misunderstanding
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; July 21, 22, and 23 | 8:30pm
Sunday, July 24 | 5:00pm
TEATRO AVANTE | Miami, Florida, USA

EL MALENTENDIDO (The Misunderstanding)

A free version of Albert Camus' play by Mario Ernesto Sánchez | Directed by Mario Ernesto Sánchez
A man who has been living abroad returns home after many years to visit his mother and sister, who have eked out a living taking in foreign lodgers. (In Spanish with English supertitles)
Carnival Studio Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center | 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
TICKETS: 305.949.6722 | 866.949.6722 (toll free) | www.arshtcenter.org