The article Rehearsals for the Revolution was published by LARRY ROHTER in the New York Times on March 6, 2013. It reports about play “Neva” by he Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón which may be set in Russia.
Speaking on the situation, it’s interesting to note that the idea of this play he found when he was a graduate student in film at the City University of New York. He found Janet Malcolm’s “Reading Chekhov,” which stimulated an interest in Russian culture and politics that led him to “A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution. This play opened Monday at the Public Theater in its English-language debut.
Reading this article it's necessary to emphasize that issues in the paly also derive from Mr. Calderón’s personal experience. He was born in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in 1971, at the height of Salvador Allende’s left-wing Popular Unity government, and came of age under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Calderón did not set out to be either a playwright or a director. He was initially an actor in television and theater and he still teaches the craft to university students in Santiago. But he decided that he “wanted something different” and wrote “Neva"
Giving appraisal of the play, it’s necessary to point out that after winning prizes in Chile in 2007 the original Spanish-language version of “Neva” has been staged in places like Colombia, France, Los Angeles and even the Chekhov Festival in Moscow, winning enthusiastic reviews and earning Mr. Calderón commissions and residencies to work on other plays.
It’s an open secret that since “Neva” he has had five more plays staged, among them “Diciembre,” a meditation on war set in the Andes in the near future, that was part of the Public’s Under the Radar Festival in 2011. There’s a comment from Mark Russell,artistic director and producer of Under the Radar, that Guillermo’s play has a very particular and special voice, and he has upped the ante quite a bit in the plays that follow.
The author draws a conclusion that Mr. Calderón has had mixed feelings about the global success of “Neva,” and worry about its future.
So to my mind this play is very interesting and if I would have a chance I will go to see it.
Speaking on the situation, it’s interesting to note that the idea of this play he found when he was a graduate student in film at the City University of New York. He found Janet Malcolm’s “Reading Chekhov,” which stimulated an interest in Russian culture and politics that led him to “A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution. This play opened Monday at the Public Theater in its English-language debut.
Reading this article it's necessary to emphasize that issues in the paly also derive from Mr. Calderón’s personal experience. He was born in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in 1971, at the height of Salvador Allende’s left-wing Popular Unity government, and came of age under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Calderón did not set out to be either a playwright or a director. He was initially an actor in television and theater and he still teaches the craft to university students in Santiago. But he decided that he “wanted something different” and wrote “Neva"
Giving appraisal of the play, it’s necessary to point out that after winning prizes in Chile in 2007 the original Spanish-language version of “Neva” has been staged in places like Colombia, France, Los Angeles and even the Chekhov Festival in Moscow, winning enthusiastic reviews and earning Mr. Calderón commissions and residencies to work on other plays.
It’s an open secret that since “Neva” he has had five more plays staged, among them “Diciembre,” a meditation on war set in the Andes in the near future, that was part of the Public’s Under the Radar Festival in 2011. There’s a comment from Mark Russell,artistic director and producer of Under the Radar, that Guillermo’s play has a very particular and special voice, and he has upped the ante quite a bit in the plays that follow.
The author draws a conclusion that Mr. Calderón has had mixed feelings about the global success of “Neva,” and worry about its future.
So to my mind this play is very interesting and if I would have a chance I will go to see it.
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