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Sergi Belbel and Esteve Soler The Martin E. Segal Theater Center and The Institut Ramon Llull present SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA at the 7th Annual 2010 PRELUDE Festival. PRELUDE is a festival exploring the forefront of contemporary NYC theater and performance. Past years have featured over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals with a focus on works-in-progress, as well as panels and informal networking opportunities. It also looks beyond New York City with its international SPOTLIGHT series. After focusing on Japan, Argentina, Poland and Korea this year’s SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA will showcase the work of contemporary Catalan theater artists - Àngels Aymar, Marta Buchaca, Sergi Belbel and Esteve Soler. Catalonia, home to Barcelona, is a distinct region of Spain with it’s own language and cultural history. With the generous support of The Institut Ramon Llull four new American translations have been commissioned which will be presented at the PRELUDE Festival. The SPOTLIGHT brings together playwrights in collaboration with New York City translators and directors in a cross cultural conversation around the production and development of new theatrical texts. The plays range in style and content from a dark comedy about the financial crisis, an immigrant story of a cuban exile, a waiting room drama and a surrealistic social commentary in 7 scenes on the subject of progress. Excerpts of the Plays will be presented and followed by a Panel Discussion on October 1, 2010 at 3 p.m. at Elebash Hall, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue ~ New York, NY www.theSegalCenter.org ~ www.llull.cat SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA will also present full readings of each of these new translations in a series to be hosted by different theatrical organizations across New York City. Offside by Sergi Belbel on Sept 30 at 7pm at The Lark Development Center (939 8th Ave. btwn 55th & 56th) Girls Shouldn’t Play Soccer by Marta Buchaca on Oct 3 at 7pm at New Georges (The Room 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 326) Solavaya by Àngels Aymar on Oct 4 at 6:30 pm at Repertorio Español (138 East 27th St) Against Progress by Esteve Soler on Oct 5 at 7 pm at La MaMa (1st Floor Theatre 74A East 4th St) SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA ~ Curated by Mallory Catlett ALL SPOTLIGHT EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA About the Festival: The 2010 PRELUDE festival will be from Wednesday, September 29 to Friday, October 1, 2010 @ the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center at CUNY. PRELUDE 10 is curated by Morgan von Prelle Pecelli and Frank Hentschker, dramaturgy by Mashinka Firunts, and produced by Arwen Lowbridge. SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA curated by Mallory Catlett. www.nycprelude.org About the Presenters: The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s primary focus is to bridge the gap between the academic and professional performing arts communities by providing an open environment for the development of educational, community-driven, and professional projects in the performing arts. As a result, MESTC is home to theatre scholars, students, playwrights, actors, dancers, directors, dramaturgs, and performing arts managers, as well as both the local and international theatre communities. The Center presents staged readings to further the development of new and classic plays, lecture series, televised seminars featuring professional and academic luminaries, and arts in education programs, and maintains its long-standing visiting-scholars-from-abroad program. In addition, the Center publishes a series of highly regarded academic journals, as well as single volumes of importance, including plays in translation, all written and edited by renowned scholars. www.theSegalCenter.org The Institut Ramon Llull (www.llull.cat) is a public institution founded by the Government of Catalonia and the Government of the Balearic Islands. Its mission is to promote Catalan language and culture internationally, in all of its variations and methods of expression. The objective of the Performing and Visual Arts Department, that covers the areas of theater, dance, music and the visual arts, is to increase awareness of the Catalan artistic production abroad, by organizing international cultural shows, helping artists, performers and producers participate in the most important international events and festivals, providing travel grants and financial support for specific projects, as well as information on Catalan artistic heritage and contemporary art scene. About the Reading Hosts: A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER brings together actors, directors, playwrights and audiences to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson. www.larktheatre.org New Georges is an award-winning nonprofit theater company which produces ambitiously theatrical new plays downtown; and is a play and artist development organization, providing an artistic home to some of the most adventurous theater artists (who are women) working today. www.newgeorges.org Repertorio Español was founded in 1968 to introduce the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic- American theatre in distinctive, quality productions. Throughout its history, Repertorio has introduced thousands of adult and student audiences to the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre, from classic Spanish drama, nearly the entire canon of Federico Garcia Lorca to works by new and/or emerging Hispanic American theatre artists. www.repertorio.org La MaMa Experimental Theatre is a world-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 48 years La MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures. We believe that in order to flourish, art needs the company of colleagues, the spirit of collaboration, the comfort of continuation, a public forum in which to be evaluated and fiscal support. www.lamama.org SPOTLIGHT: CATALONIA: The Plays and the Artists SOLAVAYA by Àngels Aymar In a small town in the pyrenees, an émigré couple lives in emotional isolation. The man is cuban. His wife is french. As the man's illness progresses, their daughter becomes his caretaker. Into this protected world enters a son who does not know where he belongs. The play is a bittersweet drama about memory, exile, and finding home by Àngels Aymar translated by US Latina playwright Caridad Svich. Àngels Aymar - Actress (theatre, cinema and television), playwright and director. Resident playwright at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya 2006/07/08. In 1990 she created her own company L’unranlaltre. Author of more than twenty plays awarded, performed, translated and published in several languages. Her plays have been performed in Europe, Latin America and the United States. In 1992 the Generalitat de Catalunya granted her a scholarship for an internship with the company The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, USA. In 2004 she presented her play La Rialla Inacabada at the FIL of Guadalajara (Mexico). In 2005 she received a grant for the writing of a play from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. She is the first Catalan playwright invited to participate in the Pen World Voices Festival NYC (2008). In 2009, she premiered the work Trueta at the TNC and presented La Indiana at the Universidad de las Artes y las Letras de La Havana, Cuba. Caridad Svich (Translator) is a US playwright-translator-songwriter-editor of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian descent. Her play The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende, receives regional premieres this fall at Denver Theatre Center and Mixed Blood. She's alumna of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, contributing editor of TheatreForum and associate editor of Routledge Uk's Contemporary Theatre Review. Her play In the Time of the Butterflies, based on the novel by Julia Alvarez, premieres in NYC in February 2011. Visit her at www.caridadsvich.com Hillary Spector (Director) has worked as a choreographer, director and performer. Venues include: P.S. 122, Classic Stage Company, Public Theater, Alice Tully Hall, National Theatre of Cataluña, Princeton University, Spoleto Festival USA, L’ Opera D' Angers, L’ Opera de Nantes, L’ Opera de Nice, L.A. Opera, Seattle Opera, and Tivoli Theatre, Copenhagen. She is a member of AEA and AGMA. More information at hillaryspector.com OFFSIDE by Sergi Belbel A story of five characters in a time of economic crisis. Pol and Anna struggle to provide for a daughter, Lisa, who dreams of studying in the US, and a grandfather, Josep, who needs full-time care. Pol has taken a pay cut. Lisa's grant application is turned down due to government deficits. Ricky, Josep's immigrant caretaker, struggles to send money home to his son who dreams of becoming a soccer star. Anna refuses to give up her few luxuries to save money. Since a major expense is maintaining Josep in his own apartment, the unthinkable becomes thinkable: killing
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