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HUMBERTO LEYVA
(1966 - )Nationality: Mexican
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Humberto Leyva was born in Coahuila, Mexico and studied agronomy and Hispanic Literature in Saltillo and acting and Drama in UNaM. Since 1991 Leyva worked in cabaret with JesUSA Rodriguez in Coyoacan, who supported him in 1995 to present his first play with his own company Teatro del Meridiano: Still life & Marlon Brando, now translated to french and german. With it he won the prize for revelation playwright in 1996, best young playwright in 1999 with Stabat mater and the Sergio Magana award for best author in 2002 with amazing animals. Leyva belongs to Sistema Nacional de Creadores de arte from CONaCULTa since 2001 and has 14 plays.
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Misunderstandings Stabat MaterMisunderstandings
Synopsis:
a Mexican History PH is arrested at JFK airport accused of who knows. a few hours later this man is liberated but watched on streets. This man has to survive in Manhattan for make his interrupted American dream and tries to understand why he was the right stuff for the paranoid American system in a tragic story of a funny Mexican teacher and legal Latin visitor, with some special immigrant taste in its end. " If you see something, say something. . ." , we can read on city buses.
Notes:
Humberto Leyva was Arrested Arriving to New York in April of 2005. Nobody knew something About him in three hours while he was practically excommunicated in some place of JFK Airport. Only one phone calling he can do to La MaMa theater people, maybe ten minutes After 11 pm. One before An Afro-American woman had red him his rights And ordered to two police men Arrest him even with handcuffs. In shock And Asking himself All the way to the jail what was the word in English for this nasty instrument of our civilization, An American police man said to him, mocking: " Andale, Andale, Gonzalez", like in Speedy Gonzalez, because his first name is precisely, Gonzalez. While he And A scared man from Ibiza had wait for A resolution inside the police department in JFK, Leyva decided no speak. He knew that this delicate situation has something special And he thought to incorporate it to the play for La Mama experiment maybe with excellent results. After 2.00 A.m. (he had Arrived Almost At 11 p.m.) Leyva was liberated And recuperated his, until now, famous baggage. Nobody found Anything in it because there was nothing. Some days After of this incident, the famous MaMa, ellen Stewart, laughed strongly when she Asked to meet him, just some hours before her Perseus premiere. Why she laughed? Only Miss Stewart knew it. Finally, the Author, the cast And directors worked And wrote during three weeks. everybody put something for create this original And sharped comedy versus Iraq invasion, staged in off-off Broadway with powerful music And A perfect international cast:
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Organisations:
La Mama e.T.C., Museo Deseo Theater Company, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York & CONaCULTa.
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Comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: video
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Synopsis:
the humorously poignant story of a mother searching for her missing son while trying to mend her difficult relationship with her daughter. " . . . Haunted by the ghost of a sibling who has died, these two disparate but ultimately similar women share an explosive bond that makes 'Night Mother look like Little House on the Praire. . . Stabat mater is Cherry Orchard refashioned as a Drama of cannibals, a chilling meditation on the convergence of an out-of-balance culture with an even more imbalanced family. It contains the kind of dreamy, Duchampian language and nihilistic posture that would make Martin McDonagh -a far more famous chronicler of disturbed family dynamics and social ugliness- bristle with envy. To hell with cultural imperialism: this play desperately needs to immigrate to America and beyond. " James Osland in his article Mexican Spitfire, American theatre magazine, December 1998
Notes:
Stabat mater's premiere IN SPaNISH was in feb 1998 in Mexico City, in Foro La Gruta del Centro Cultural Helenico. the cast was ANGeLINa PeLaeZ, VaNeSSa BaUCHe, KaRINa GIDI, LUCIa MUNOZ, MaRU BRaVO AND HUMBeRTO SILVa. Ricardo Diaz, director.
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Organisations:
Sony Pictures entertainment, the National endowment of the Arts, the Cultural affairs Department , City of Los Angeles, L. a. County Arts Comission & SINeRGIa. Ruben amavizca, director. With MaRIa WIDa, MINeRVa GaRCIa, FLaVIa SaRaVaLLI, SaRa BaRRIOS & RUBeN aMaVIZCa. Translation : eVe MULLeR & LIaNe SCHIRMeR
1st Published:
emilio Carballido in Tramoya theater magazine ( Universidad Veracruzana and Camden University.), 1998 -
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