This year's Political Theater Festival is fastly approaching! The festival, now in its eighth year, features new work by local playwright Rhianna Yazzi, Dominic Orlando, and guest spoken word artist Paul Flores.
This year's theme is Social Justice, so come on down to Intermedia Arts for some great theater and dialogue.
TEATRO DEL PUEBLO'S EIGHTH ANNUAL POLITICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 19th – March 14th, 2009
At Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls, MN 55408
$15 Adults; $13 Seniors/Students/Fringe Button; $11 Groups of
10+/Intermedia Arts Members
In the tradition of Latin American theatre, Teatro del Pueblo once
again joins forces with Intermedia Arts, the University of Minnesota
and the Resource Center of the Americas to bring Minnesota the
biggest, brightest and best Political Theatre Festival yet! This year
includes new plays from around the world, an all new interactive
theatre piece exploring Social Justice and in closing weekend the
Midwest debut of REPRESENTA, written and performed by renowned spoken
word and theatre artist Paul Flores!
Series A: Feb 19, 21, 22, 27, March 1
"Las Madres" by Rhiana Yazzie
"Vivia's Lament" by Matthew Paul Olmos
"Speak America" by Dominic Orlando
Series B: Feb 20, 22, 26, 28, March 1
"R.I.P." by Jose Martinez Queirolo
"La Autopsia" by Enrique Buenaventura
And an all new interactive theatre piece by Dominic Orlando!
For reservations, please contact tickets@teatrodelpueblo.org or call
651-224-8806
For more information on the Political Theatre Festival, please call
(651) 224-8806, or visit www.teatrodelpueblo.org
*All performances in English with some Spanish unless otherwise noted
SERIES A
Thursday, February 19, 8pm (pay what you can)
Saturday, February 21, 8pm
Sunday, February 22, 2pm
Friday, February 27, 8pm
Sunday, March 1, 7pm (pay what you can)
Las Madres by Rhiana Yazzie
Directed by Delta Giordanio
A fresh look at Las Madres de La Plaza de Mayo through the eyes of
their grandchildren.
Vivia's Lament by Matthew Paul Olmos
Directed by Hayley Finn
One immigrant woman's tremendous journey.
Speak America! by Dominic Orlando
Directed by Mark Monfils
Social Justice collides with commercialism in a new hit TV show.
SERIES B
Friday, February 20, 8pm
Sunday, February 21, 7pm (pay what you can)
Thursday, February 26, 8pm (pay what you can)
Saturday, February 28, 8pm
Sunday, March 1, 2pm
Sunday, March 2, 2pm
R.I.P. by Jose Martinez Quierolo
Directed by Carlos Vargas
An odd couple take their own humorous, postmortem look at classicism
based on their own aristocratic status.
La Autopsia by Enrique Buenaventura
A tragic look at one man's struggle as his duty in society versus his
duty to family.
NEW INTERACTIVE by Dominic Orlando Directed by Brian Balcom
The trail of the century comes to Teatro del Pueblo and puts Social
Justice to the test!
Series C:
REPRESENTA, Written and Performed by Paul Flores, March 5, 6, 7
REPRESENTA! Bilingual Theatre for the Hip-Hop Generation,
Co-commissioned by the San Francisco International Arts Festival, La
Peña Cultural Center, GALA Hispanic Theatre, New Jersey Center for
Perfroming Arts and NPN. REPRESENTA! brings together the vision of
writer/performer Paul S. Flores and Cuban rapper Julio Cardenas
developed and directed by Danny Hoch in a fiercely incisive commentary
on terrorism, immigration, Cuba, U.S. foreign policy, Bay Area lefty
culture, New York after 9/11 and pan-Latino identity. Setting itself
apart from other spoken-word performance, REPRESENTA! is bilingual
theatre which combines spoken-word poetry with character portrayals
that are simultaneously hilariously entertaining and provocative. A
diverse and funny show with excellent supertitle translation for
non-Spanish speakers who also want to learn more about contemporary
Cuban culture. San Francisco hip-hop spoken word poet, Flores, travels
to Cuba in 1996 looking for revolutionary solidarity at the Cuban
Hip-Hop Festival. He finds that Hip-Hop in communist Cuba is thriving
while the economy is in a chokehold. When the SF poet meets one
particular Cuban rapper, Cardenas, who is looking for the "come up",
more access, more attention, more validation and accolades for his
art, two revolutions collide: Cuba and Hip-Hop. While the main
characters try to reconcile this paradoxical relationship over a ten
year period, one's desire for a future in Hip-Hop is directly
juxtaposed with the other's desire for a future for the Revolution.
