Creature/Creations: A Political Fable about Responsibility and Delusion
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404)
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The last date listed for Creature/Creations was Saturday July 18, 2009 / 8:30pm.
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HOUR LONG MONOLOGUE!!!!!!!!!Written on Jul 20 2009
it was torture for me especially since the only way to exit was to walk across the front of the stage. I'm sure it was worse for me because I didn't realize it was a monologue until I got there. The friend that I went with said it was like listening to a homeless person rant for an hour. That description explains it the best i think. If you do chose to go, SIT BY THE EXIT!- in case you find your self in the same situation as me
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Description
The expressionistic fable Creature/Creations recounts the tale of a Woman whose whole world has been turned upside down. Family and friends are all dead. She survives by thinking she is a hen. But as she examines her life, she comes to the shocking realization that she has been a “collaborator” in the terror and violence that engulfed her. It was easier for her to look the other way, deluding herself with fantasies and distractions in order to enjoy her privileged status, the middle way.
Creature/Creations is part of a group of 21 short plays written in 1981 for the first cycle of Teatro Abierto (Open Theatre) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also known as Theatre Under Vigilance, Teatro Abierto was a cultural reaction by the theatre community against the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1970 through 1983.
Director / Translator Abraham Celaya has served as the Artistic & Education Director of Theatre of Hope, the Education and Outreach Coordinator of the Pasadena Playhouse, and Associate Director and the Assistant to the Artistic Director, Benny Sato Ambush, at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He has also served as an assistant director for the Taper, Too, the Old Globe in San Diego, and the Seattle Rep. His direction of Arrabal’s The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria received critical acclaim during its run at Stages Theatre Center.
Performer Minerva García is well known to Los Angeles audiences. A few of her credits are Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum, María in Chavez Ravine also at the Taper, Julia Flores in School of the Americas at Teatro Visión, Frida at the Frida Kahlo Theatre and Sandra in Living Out at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. She can also be seen on the small screen in series like Dexter, Viva Vegas, Los Beltrán, City of Angels and The Closer.
About the Ticket Supplier: Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.