El Juego que Todos Jugamos
DATES: Saturdays and Sundays in April
LOCATION: CECATUR Auditiorum (MAP)
TICKETS: 60 pesos general, 30 pesos students and seniors

I apologize for my poor translation of this press release. Read the link about Alejandro Jodorowsky to get a much better idea of what a fine work this is.

Every day we play to be important. We play to see who wins, who punishes who loses.

Saturday April 5, the Municipal Theatre Group, begins a short season at the Auditorium CECATUR with this controversial staging of Alejandro Jodorowsky, led by Maestro Alberto Fabian. Significantly, the Group returns from a successful show in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, where they have been named for four consecutive years Encounter Theatre of the Interior of Jalisco.

The game that we play is not exactly a theatrical work, literally. Indeed it has no Shakesperianos nor the nuances Calderonianos, only a great deal of thought.

When you ask Jodorowsky, of what meaning is his work, he comes out with the phrases most pathetic and demagogic… ¡No sé lo que quiero hacer, pero se muy bien lo que no quiero hacer! I do not know what I want to do, but I know very well what I do not want to do! And what he wanted was to make a hole in the exterior wall, called convenience, which we are surrounded with, helped by the society. We are shielded behind it, rejecting everything that is not suited to what we call “normal”.
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Dana Zeller-Alexis, who received raves from theater audiences for her role here in Shirley Valentine, and Mark Zeller, Broadway actor and singer who directed her, will perform Broadway a Puerto Vallarta, a high spirited evening of Broadway and Popular Songs from Leonard Bernstein to Jimmy Webb, on the first two Mondays and Tuesdays in March (the 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th) at 6:30 pm, at Kathy Von Rohr´s galeria and studio, 32 Manuel M. Diegez, in the Zona Romantica. Wine and appetizers are included.

These performances are a benefit for the Rehabilitation Clinic of Santa Barbara (Clinica de Rehabilitation Santa Barbara).

Tickets are $250 pesos in advance and $300 at the door and are available by calling the Clinic 224 2754 or the Zellers 223 2697.
For further information, email dana78st(at)sbcgoal.net.

Othello by William Shakespeare
Performed in Spanish.
March 2, 2008, at 8pm in the Cecatur Auditorium.
60 pesos.

For more information, phone 223 0095 or 113 0107

LOCATION and MAP

Solomon Rosenheim will be performing in the classical musical, STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF. This time with a twist.

by the PVeye

Previous attempts at this production here have Vallartanized it (why do they do that? Shirley Valentine worked so well both on stage and on film throughout Europe and the rest of the world without being localized to a mud hut in Bogota when it was showing there – frankly I like to walk beside the Rio Cuale and watch the women beating their laundry against a rock and not have think ‘Oh god is that another latter-day, born-again, feminist talking to it’ – whatever?). This time it is being done straight, in his own words, ‘as close to the original Broadway production as I can get it mate!’, good on yer Sol, mind you he’s probably a lot more in touch with his feminine side than I am.

Performances are at the Santa Barbara Theatre on Olas Altas on the Saturdays, February 16th, 23rd, March 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd at 8 pm. Performing with Sol are Patrice White, Kathy Overly and Christopher May.

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