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Antonin...mon Artaud
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An irreverent performance-art-psychodrama uncovers Artaud’s passionate, daring truth and exposes him naked with his pain…"the pain of the world. "
A visual-dynamic spectacle with a touch of absurd and unpredictable humor that fuses magic realism and the shocking awareness of the Theatre of Cruelty to unravel Artaud’s brilliant, lucid madness.
Antonin…mon Artaud is based on the life and work of actor, director, theoretician, artist, and visionary genius Antonin Marie Joseph Artaud. After years of research and practice with Artaud’s theory of the Theatre of Cruelty, Roi “Bubi” Escudero has unraveled Artaud’s brilliant, lucid madness. To create this piece Bubi has followed Artaud’s belief that the creative process of the mise-en-scène needs to be in the hands of the same artist. With her background in French literature, visual arts and theatre she has constructed a universal language and originated an integral work as a performance artist, playwright and director. Bubi’s method focuses on impromptu and visceral techniques that guide the performers through the creative process. The poetic imagery of a multimedia video brings together music, sound, and movement, and supports the narrative and action onstage. The fourth wall is broken down, reality and fantasy are intermingled, and the audience is pulled into a visual-dynamic hallucination of a non-structured theatrical spectacle.
“My work is the result of mixed cultural experiences, with a psychoanalytic perspective behind nature, superstition and universal existential thoughts. It incorporates the Latin-American technique of “realismo magico” to exaggerate reality and blends together the “real” with fantasy, magic, myth, superstition, and nature’s phenomena. The creative principle of my work is to create equilibrium between the real atmosphere and the magical one: imaginary characters doing mundane things and mundane characters doing unreal and fantastic things.”
The performance features the artists-in–residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab: Andy Chmelko, Jennifer Loryn*, Eddy Rimada and Roi “Bubi” Escudero.
Dance by Antonio Fini. Christian Cziotka (Clarinet)
Mise-en-scène, costumes, masks, sound, and multimedia video by Roi “Bubi” Escudero. Mobile- Structures and Translucent Backdrops by James Ewan. Technical Director/Lighting Designer: Alan Kanevsky. Associate producer: Andy Chmelko.
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Roi “Bubi” Escudero is a conceptual performance-artist, dramatist and director of video and new media theatre. Her Spanish, French, and Italian background exposed her to different cultures. Bubi’s work is based in multiculturalism, ethics, and aesthetics. Its objective is to provoke thought and to promote cultural and creative integration through the evolution of new media, performance art, physical theatre, video, and dynamic entertainment. Currently she lives in New York City, where she leads ETdC Projects’ Lab. The experimental Lab is dedicated to developing cutting edge, non-structured performance art cinema pieces and new media-theatre. Bubi’s performance art piece will present Andy Chmelko as Antonin Artaud. He has attended ETdC Projects’ Lab since 2004 and serves as projects’ literary manager. His play Office Sonata was recently published in Martin Denton’s annual anthology book Plays and Playwrights 2007. Andy has appeared in five of Bubi’s performance art pieces: After Charlie (2004), La Playa (The Beach) (2005), What@trip! (2006) Bubulinos Best Bestow (2007) and A Proverbial Affair (2007). “Through an uncompromising and rewarding regimen of hard work, focus, and discovery under the inspiring guidance of Ms. Escudero I finally find myself becoming the performer that I’ve dreamed of being since childhood.”
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The Kraine Theatre
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