£12.00
Concessions: £6.00
Tuesday - Saturday, Tuesday 20th October 2009 - Saturday 7th November 2009 8.00PM
Saturday 7th November 2009 4.00PM
Weds 28 Oct 8pm: Free Video-link broadcast for wheelchair users
Fri 6 Nov 8pm: Audio Described, with Ruth James & Alison Clarke, including pre-show touch tour
VenueUpstairs
Production CompanyFootprint Project and Tirso Theatre Company
WebsiteClick here for more information
Please note that the advertised times are the start of the actual performance, not the time when doors open: please arrive in good time to collect your tickets and take your seats as, in most cases, we CANNOT admit latecomers for whatever reason. If you arrive after the start of a show you will NOT be entitled to a refund, so why not come early instead and enjoy a drink or a meal in our licensed Cafe/Gallery beforehand.
Footprint Project and Tirso Theatre Company presents
Frida Kahlo Viva La Vida
by Humberto Robles
ART. PASSION. OBSESSION.
Gaël le Cornec paints an explosive on-stage portrait of Latin America’s greatest female painter.
Sharp, witty and bursting with colour, this multi award-winning, critically acclaimed play transfers to Oval House Theatre for its London premiere.
Based on fragments of Frida Kahlo’s biography, letters, extracts from her diary and some interviews, this play powerfully recreates the intimate life of a unique woman, an artist who managed to transfer her vibrant culture and her deepest dramas onto the canvas.
Performed by Gaël Le Cornec
Directed by Luis Benkard
Designer: Sophie Mosberger
Lighting designer Phil Hewitt
Sound Design by Menino Josue
Producer Gaël Le Cornec
Co-Producer Amanda Federici
Assistant Producer Claudia Blanco
Photographers Stefana Brancastle & Carol Nocetti
Winner of the Argus Angel Award of Artistic Excellence, Brighton Festival 2009
Winner of Universal Arts Best Acting Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008
ALL EVENING SHOWS NOW SOLD OUT: we have added an extra matinee performance this Saturday due to popular demand
FREE POST SHOW EVENTS Thursday 22 October: post-show discussion with the artistic team and the playwright Humberto Robles Friday 23 October: Mariachi Songs in the time of Frida - live music and refreshments in our cafe, Mexican style! Tuesday 27 October: The Life of Frida Kahlo - a post-show talk with Dr Luis Rebaza-Soraluz, senior lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies Post-show events are supported by the Mexican Embassy and Corona. JUST ADDED
Wednesday 28th of October, 6pm
Reading of the play Mujeres de Arena/Women of Sand by Humberto Robles. A play about the female homicides in Juarez, a city in the border of North Mexico and USA.
Price: £3 donation for the organisation Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a casa www.nuestrashijasderegresoacasa.blogspot.com
Photo by Stefana Brancastle.
What The Press Say...
A review by Chad Armitstead for Extra! Extra!
Chad Armitstead, Extra! Extra! — 24th October 2009
Luis Benkard’s Frida Kahlo: Viva la Vida is painfully true to Ms. Kahlo’s art: it’s a portrait, bold, bright and heartbreaking.
It is the Day of the Dead in Mexico and the artist Frida Kahlo dresses her home with traditional, decorated Mexican skulls as she remembers the people and events that…” (read full review)
Paul Vale, The Stage — 26th October 2009
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