December 19, 2008, Festival of Latin American Theater

Theater and puppets
Mon & Tue, Dec 22 & 23, 5 & 7pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Reloj 50A

Octavio’s Cow
Author: Darío Palacio
Mon, Dec 22, 5pm
50 pesos

Lost on the Sea
Author: Slawomir Mrozek
Mon, Dec 22, 7pm
100 pesos

The Double-Bass
Author: Patrick Süskind.
Tue, Dec 23, 7pm
100 pesos

Octavio’s Cow

With a joyful and enthusiastic spirit, we fill children’s worlds with fantasy. The colors, magic and tales form a group of learning games in schools, parks, paths, towns and in any other place where children are. The puppets, along with the theater’s magic, will share the tales of the rainbow in a party of colors and flowers, with which actors and imaginary characters bring Octavio’s Cow to life.

A balloon guided by a group of strange characters, puppets and colors, travels from stage to stage arriving to the place where innocence remains pure. The public waits with happiness for the balloon to go down, bringing with it all the characters who take part in this story.

This play is recommended for all members of the public; you do not need to know Spanish because all scenes are built with strong visual language, making it perfectly understandable and enjoyable.

Lost on the Sea

Lost on the Sea is the result of a recipe that contains the essential ingredients for experiencing a great moment. It is the story of three shipwrecked on a raft, who must make a decision in a cruel situation.

Two of them must eat the third in order to survive. Deepest ambitions mix with alliances, interests, corruption and confrontations. Two figures incorporate themselves to the story: a mailman and a lackey, both of whom would work as lifesavers. The author provokes his own characters, giving them an opportunity to change their fate.

Could the future of a government, where everything is meticulously calculated to get only personal success, be changed? Would it be possible to live in a place where “man’s voracity for man” becomes more evident all the time? The audience at Lost on the Sea identify itself with the situations that day by day mark the politics of this country…although in this raft there is no nearby port.

The Double-Bass

An orchestra musician has spent a life studying music and devoting his whole time, life and soul to it. Only a few years after graduating from the National German Conservatory, he lives attached to a monotonous unchanging life, with an instrument which he blames for all his miseries.

Using as an excuse his close relationship with music and the unselfish devotion to his work, he isolated himself from society and immersed himself in his passion for music to compensate for his sad loneliness. This situation has turned him into a fickle person, full of fears and obsessions, but one obsession may be his great and only motivation to continue: Sarah.

This night you’ll be his guest of honor, you can chat with him during an hour and 50 minutes. If you find in this play some similarities toward you, it will be pure coincidence.

This monologue, though a funny story, transports us through the wonderful world of music. Evoking great composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert, the author of Perfume helps us to a better understanding of the evolution of music through the centuries

As Goethe said, “Music is so high that no other intelligence can exceed it; from it emanates a power that dominates everything and that nobody is able to explain.”

We recommend this play for Spanish-speaking people over 12.

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