SOLO DELL’ARTE – Cancelled
Suggested Donation: $400
Synopsis:
A performance ‘alla Dario Fo’ with an anti-prologue, prologue and a collection of characters that take us to the tragic bottom that must exist in all comedy. A fiery comedy rooted in the spirit of Lorca´s Tragedies, as current as our popular tradition: “a theatre for and with the people“.
Solo dell’Arte is a surprising and moving journey of masks in a new and Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte, demonstrating the omnipresence of this form of art in theatre and cinema. With nothing more than an empty space, leather masks and the audience, García Estévez takes us on two journeys where human nature plays the leading role.
Bio:
Carlos García Estévez is an international artist born in Spain. He is Artistic Director of Manifesto Poetico, an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.
Manifesto Poetico comes from Carlos’ 25 years of research and productions done internationally. He has also performed and directed in over 20 different countries and over 45 different Universities. Over his career he has developed his research into multi-style mis-en-scene, inter- disciplinary productions and devised theatre that is contemporary. The success of his work and the enthusiastic response from the audience comes from a reinvention of traditional- popular theatre. As he learned from Dario Fo, Carlos keeps the spirit of popular theatre in order to create new contemporary theatrical languages that speak to audiences today.
He directs shows, workshops, TransPoetico Productions and research projects in Europe, North, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Recent creations directed by Carlos include Nama Kamu Atas Perahu (Kuala Lumpur, 2013), Tito’s Dream (USA, 2014), Bogota In Action (Bogota, 2015), New York Lands (New York, 2016), Klassiek van de Toekomst (Haarlem, NL, 2017), Hann: Voices of a Bay (Dakar, Senegal 2018), Pulse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018), The Gate of Hope (Guadalajara, Mexico 2019), BELFAST 1919 (Belfast, NI 2019), In The Name Of Humanity (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2021) and If I Listened… (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2022).
He is currently touring his solo performance Solo dell’Arte. It has been in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Argentina, Romania, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Cyprus, Greece, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.