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BEAT G. A DIFFERENT BEAT
Isis de Coura & Mario Hernández (Irregulares)
Institution
“There were women. They were there, I met them, their families locked them up in asylums, they underwent shock treatment. In the fifties, if you were a man you could be a rebel, but if you were a woman your family locked you up. There were cases, I met them. Someday somebody will write about them", Gregory Corso, 1994.
A night, any night in 1961. New York. In one of New York’s many speakeasies that were tucked away all over the Village, where the rage of an entire generation rose up, the public would swarm to witness the performance of such myths of the beat generation as Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg. The crowd becomes restless when two women appear instead. Everyone knows who they are. Someone's girlfriend, someone's lover. But tonight , they have their own names: Joyce Johnson and Elise Cowen. They have decided to grab hold of the microphone, on behalf of all their forgotten fellow female writers and they won’t let go of it until it is made perfectly clear that the voice of the new generation is not just a male voice. They have a lot to say. Tonight, finally, they are going to take back their own heartbeat. Their own voice. And five decades later, the poems of these women, in the voices of actresses Sara Gomez and Esther Vega, will spread like aromas of memory and vindication throughout the entire cafeteria of Naves Matadero.
Following the success of their theatrical-poetic piece on Mario Benedetti, AWoman in the Dark, and their latest première, Sharp-edged Jaw (Mandíbula afilada), the company Irregulares, formed by designer Isis de Coura and director and playwright Mario Hernández, bring back to life the women of the beat generation who defied the puritan society of the fifties and sixties in the United States. “Women who raised their voice, demanding their rights to their body, their life, their work", as the Irregulares explain.
CREDITS
Direction and dramaturgy: Mario Hernández
Design and scenography: Isis de Coura
Assistant director: Guillermo Rodríguez
Props & costumes assistants: Tagore González and Sonia Rubio
Photography: Georgia Ark
Communication & press: Gran Vía Comunicación
Performers: Sara Gómez and Esther Vega
Language: Spanish and English
WORLD PREMIERE
More activities of FLIPAS:
Coisas do meu imaginário
La plaza en invierno
Explosión sonora
Do you read me
Colombia suena
Leer, ¿es sexy?
Ciclo de cine Palabra Vista
A night, any night in 1961. New York. In one of New York’s many speakeasies that were tucked away all over the Village, where the rage of an entire generation rose up, the public would swarm to witness the performance of such myths of the beat generation as Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg. The crowd becomes restless when two women appear instead. Everyone knows who they are. Someone's girlfriend, someone's lover. But tonight , they have their own names: Joyce Johnson and Elise Cowen. They have decided to grab hold of the microphone, on behalf of all their forgotten fellow female writers and they won’t let go of it until it is made perfectly clear that the voice of the new generation is not just a male voice. They have a lot to say. Tonight, finally, they are going to take back their own heartbeat. Their own voice. And five decades later, the poems of these women, in the voices of actresses Sara Gomez and Esther Vega, will spread like aromas of memory and vindication throughout the entire cafeteria of Naves Matadero.
Following the success of their theatrical-poetic piece on Mario Benedetti, AWoman in the Dark, and their latest première, Sharp-edged Jaw (Mandíbula afilada), the company Irregulares, formed by designer Isis de Coura and director and playwright Mario Hernández, bring back to life the women of the beat generation who defied the puritan society of the fifties and sixties in the United States. “Women who raised their voice, demanding their rights to their body, their life, their work", as the Irregulares explain.
CREDITS
Direction and dramaturgy: Mario Hernández
Design and scenography: Isis de Coura
Assistant director: Guillermo Rodríguez
Props & costumes assistants: Tagore González and Sonia Rubio
Photography: Georgia Ark
Communication & press: Gran Vía Comunicación
Performers: Sara Gómez and Esther Vega
Language: Spanish and English
WORLD PREMIERE
More activities of FLIPAS:
Coisas do meu imaginário
La plaza en invierno
Explosión sonora
Do you read me
Colombia suena
Leer, ¿es sexy?
Ciclo de cine Palabra Vista
Artistic team and specifications
- Duracion
- 65 minutes