La RazOn Blindada Extends At 24th Street Theatre Thru 11/7
By: Gabrielle Sierra Oct. 05, 2010
The U.S. Premiere of La RazÓn Blindada "The Armored Reason" (Presented in Spanish with English Supertitles) Written and Directed by Aristides Vargas has been Extended until November 7
CRITICS CHOICE!F. Kathleen Foley - LA Times CRITICS CHOICE!"Echoes of Kakfa and Beckett resound throughout in effusive, elliptical interchanges that are often nonsensical, sometimes didactic...the effect is hallucinatory, trance-inducing and surreal, an absurdist construct that hammers home man's gross capacity for inhumanity -- and his transcendent ability to endure."Deborah Klugman - LAWeekly GO!"Writer/director Aristides Vargas' drew inspiration for this poignantly horrific black comedy from the experience of his brother, a political prisoner in Argentina during that country's military dictatorship...The performances are consummate and the staging, as eloquent as the text, features a videographed landscape over which, their sunken shadows pass, and Faure's 'Elegie for Violoncello and Orchestra' to underscore the pathos."In his internationally acclaimed stage work, La Razón Blindada, Argentine-born playwright/director Aristides Vargas infuses Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel, El Quijote with Franz Kafka's, The Truth About Sancho Panza, and testimonies by Chicho Vargas and other political prisoners held in the 1970's at the Rawson Prison during Argentina's dictatorship. Two political prisoners, oppressed by physical and emotional abuse, find solace in meeting every Sunday at dusk to tell the story of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Their storytelling unravels amidst the extreme limitations imposed by their condition of inmates in a maximum security prison. The production features Jesus Castaños-Chima and Arturo Diaz de Sandy,Sundays at 3pm, until November 7th.24th Street Theatre
1117 West 24th Street (@ 24th & Hoover)
(Parking available in the 24th Street Theatre lot)
General admission - $24; teachers/students/seniors - $15;
North University Park Area Residents - 24 cents.
Call 213-745-6516; email theatre@24thstreet.org
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