The Festival is an initiative that emerged in 2020 to keep live theater active and to reunite with the audience. A new virtual stage that is here to stay.
We want to create new opportunities for Latino talent to be showcased and for them to be able to entertain, move, and transform audiences through the powerful force of theater. Through it all, technology has become even more so an integral part of how we interact with the world. We believe that it can serve as a bridge between us and our audience, as well as audiences to come, while we await the reopening of our true home: the theater. To be able to continue this art form through a digital platform is a definite expression of theater’s resilience.
With this festival, we want to stimulate the use of the virtual as an alternative option for live theater, which we believe will continue to exist even when in-person theater returns.
Unipersonal sobre La Lupe, la excéntrica cantante cubana. Una Lupe que ya no canta, después de una vida llena de altisonancias, se refugia en la evocación de sus melancolías con desparpajo e ironía. La pieza se desarrolla dos meses antes de la muerte de la Diva, durante su exilio en Nueva York, entregada al evangelio y anhelando sus días como reina del latin soul.
Basada en el libro de Diego Arroyo Gil, sobre Sofía Imber, una de las personalidades más polémicas del periodismo y la cultura venezolana; su vida, sus relaciones, sus pérdidas y la condición que la llevó al diván de un psiquiatra por varios años.
Es una versión libre en torno a la novela homónima de Pär Lagerkvist, escritor sueco, premio Nobel en 1951. En El Enano, el autor concibe un engendro de 65 cm de altura, dotado de una filosa capacidad para ejercer la destrucción, en una corte medieval donde campean los juegos de poder, las turbulencias del amor, la traición venenosa, el mito de la desolación, la práctica del cinismo y la simbología de la perversidad metafísica.
Versión contemporánea del dramaturgo alemán Heiner Müller del clásico Hamlet de William Shakespeare. El delirio de Hamlet se manifiesta luego del asesinato de su padre y de la inmediata boda de su madre. Los fantasmas de sus tormentos aparecen una y otra vez; el dolor del mundo lo atraviesa.
Water People Theater is proud and honored to be able to present the work of this incredibly talented group of Latin actors, directors and dramaturgs.
The jury had a difficult decision to make because of the quality of the work we received from applicants emanating from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, United States, and Venezuela.
Congratulations on this achievement and welcome to FIT MONOLOGUES!
A new stage for actors to stand on and re-engage with audiences during this digital hiatus provided by Water People Theater.
We want to create new opportunities for Latin talent to be showcased and for them to be able to entertain, move, and transform audiences through the powerful force of theater.
It is also a new stage for the public to reconnect; providing audiences the opportunity to be another member of the judging panel at the festival.
The event will take place from July 24-31, 2020.
