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LOLA ARIAS |
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Nationality: Argentine Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Lola Arias is a writer, director, performer, and songwriter from Argentina, and founder of the interdisciplinary Compaņia Postnuclear. Her works include Striptease (2007), El amor es un francotirador (2007), Mi vida despues (2009), Familienbande (2009), and That Enemy Within (2010). Together with Ulises Conti, she composes and plays music, and has release two albums. In 2010, Arias and Stefan Kaegi founded Ciudades Paralelas, a festival of site-specific urban performance projects in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich, and Singapore. Her performances have been staged at festivals including Festival dAvignon, In Transit Festival in Berlin, We are here in Dublin, Spielart Festival in Munich, Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, and Radicals Festival in Barcelona.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Lola Arias
Airport Kids | ||
| 1st Produced: | De Singel International Art Campus, Antwerp | 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | Rimini Protokoll | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105507 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | Third-Culture-Children, also referred to as Trans-Culture-Children (TCCs) or World Nomads, spend much of their young lives in cultures and countries not their own. They are displaced young persons, sons and daughters of well-healed refugees and employees of multinational corporations. They attend international schools where the language is English, though many of them speak several languages and carry three passports. Since the term was coined in the '60s by Ruth Hill Useen, the lives and subcultures of these young people have been the subject of extensive research. The one trait they share is a complex concept of terms like 'home' and 'nationality' that differs considerably from anything found among the less mobile members of the global population. In Airport Kids, there are Chinese, Brazilian, Canadian/French, Angolan, Romanian, Moroccan, Indonesian, Indian and Irish children, all of whom live in Switzerland at present, but follow their parents all over the globe, make and lose friends every couple of years and come from privileged backgrounds. Patrick got his first credit card when he was ten. Still, if one is expecting to find a bunch of brats, dysfunctional and superior, one will be surprised. These kids are pluricultural; they are vocal; they are lonely and in the show they each have their own baggage container, a cramped metal space to call home, a place of privacy where they can keep their most cherished possessions. One has a drumkit, another pet snails, a third a tennis racket, a fourth an accordion. Their containers are moved around the stage and they emerge to tell part of their life stories and return to the safety of their own individual, mobile space. They form a rock band and appear in video projections on the side of each others containers; they share with us their experience of the past and their vision of the future. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Islands, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Jun 2016 | |||||
Organisations: | Brighton Festival and Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #169023 | |||
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Genre: | political play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | The Islands by Argentinian artist Lola Arias, is about the Falklands Islands and is being developed with, and performed by Argentinian and British veterans. In a production that is political, playful and highly personal, Arias brings together soldiers who fought on opposite sides, giving them an opportunity to share with us and each other their first hand experiences on a battlefield 8000 miles from London. Merging film, re-enactment and documentary theatre The Islands blurs the lines between truth and fiction to give a fascinating insight into how and what people remember, and how war continues to cast a long shadow over the lives of its protagonists. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kingdom, a Country or a Wasteland, in the Snow, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Organisations: | Performance Space 122 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121573 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Minefield | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 02 Jun 2016 | ||||
Organisations: | Lift 2016 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #182992 | |||
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Genre: | political play [In English and Spanish with English surtitles.] | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | In her trademark political and playful style, Lola Arias brings together British and Argentinian veterans of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas war to share their first-hand experience of the conflict and life since. This collaboratively created new work merges theatre and film to blur the lines between truth and fiction, on a stage 8,000 miles from their remembered battlefield. "When I got back from the war I was a stone. I couldn't feel anything. " Argentinian veteran "The islands looked very beautiful, much like Scotland with barren land and mountains. But that was just a blurred image through my binoculars." British veteran | |||||
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My Life After | ||
| 1st Produced: | Corn Exchange, Brighton | 24 May 2013 | ||||
Organisations: | Brighton Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #151574 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | 'When I was 7 years old I used to wear my mother's clothes and walk around the house stepping on my dress like a miniature queen. Twenty years later, I find a pair of my mother's jeans from the 70s and they are just my size. I put them on and begin to walk toward the past.' Who were my parents when was I born? What was life in Argentina like before I learned to speak? How many versions are there about what happened before I existed or when I was so young that I can't remember? In My Life After, created by writer-director Lola Arias, six actors born in Argentina in the late 70s and early 80s reconstruct their parents' youth - using photos, letters, tapes, clothes, stories and memories. Each actor reconstructs scenes from the past in order to understand something from their future. As if they were their parents' stunt doubles, each actor recreates dimly remembered, half-understood scenes from their shared history. Both playful and political, the explorations of My Life After reveal complexity and dark secrets alongside the joy and humour of lives recovered. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Year I Was Born, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX >>> | 24 Jun 2014 | ||||
Organisations: | Southbank Centre and LIFT | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #162324 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Lola Arias | |||||
Synopsis: | Performers born in Pinochet's Chile tell stories of their parents' lives in the grip of dictatorship. Like stunt doubles, the eleven actors re-create their parents' experiences with photographs, letters, cassettes, old clothing, anecdotes and elusive recollections. Playful and political, The year I was born gives a seldom-seen and highly personal insight into the impact of a parent's actions. Two generations face one another in a reckoning of both the joy of childhood and the dark secrets from a bloody moment in international history. | |||||
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