This weekend: Edgy, Avant-garde play about immigration + identity
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UPDATE: The Washington Post likes “Amarillo,” the play about immigration and identity that’s in town this weekend only.
As part of a U.S. tour, the Mexican theater group, Teatro Línea de Sombra, will perform Friday and Saturday nights at the Gala Hispanic Theatre. Today’s review described it as a combination of “stylistic edginess” and documentary gravitas.
“A theatrical mediation on the harsh realities that face undocumented migrants and their families,” takes stories company members culled from interviews with migrants and uses poetry, dance, video, and stylized movement to rise above the “amarillismo” where the production may have otherwise headed.
“We try to use the image for its deep meaning — and not just for spectacle,” the group’s artistic director, Jorge A. Vargas told Post critic, Celia Wren. [Here’s the full review.]
Teatro Línea de Sombra is part of the Mid Atlantic Foundation’s new program, Southern Exposure: Performing Arts of Latin America. To promote the play, company members are doing an array of side events. Besides the meetups with DC’s artistic community and academia that we mentioned yesterday, there’s a storytelling workshop with day laborers at the Central American Resource Center.
And the performers will be at American University’s Katzen Center today to discuss trends in Latin American theater-making. The “talk-show” moderated by AU professor Ximena Varela will examine global influences in theater and whether the performing arts can help deconstruct stereotypes and convey diversity in all its richness. It’s free and open to the public. Details below, along with the lowdown on this weekend’s performances.
TALK: Southern Exposure: Creation, identity + journeys through Latin American theater
Thursday, Nov. 1, 3 to 5 p.m.
PERFORMANCE: Amarillo
Friday & Saturday, Nov. 1 & 2, 8 p.m.
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