RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Jacqueline Du Pré died at the age of 42 after a long and difficult illness. I identified my own personal demise with Jacqueline’s. Sadness caused me to seek out complicity with the dead; fear of being excluded, as well as pain, led me to and made me seek out complicity with the dead. There was a moment in which I felt the need to communicate with Jacqueline, to talk with her; I wanted her to explain to me the terrifying conflict, embodied in her physicality, between matter and spirit. I did not want to talk with living people. The living had defrauded me, deceived me, terribly. I recalled Cassavettes’ Opening Night, in which Gena Rowlands goes to a séance looking for hope, for an answer, for a bit of compassion that the living lack. That’s what I am looking for among the dead, an understanding of why I (who little by little have become a bundle of anxiety, of fear, of loneliness and of mistrust), why I (who doesn’t want to abandon life, but does want to die), why I continue living while Jacqueline does not.

 

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ANGÉLICA LIDDELL

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Author, director and actress Angélica Liddell was born in Figueres in the Spanish province of Girona in 1966. In 1993, she founded the Atra Bilis Teatro and has since created more than 20 productions with them. Her plays have been translated into various languages, among them French, English, Russian, German, Portuguese and Polish. Among her plays are “La falsa suicida” (2000), “Once upon a time in West Asphixia” (2002), “Y cómo no se pudrió Blancanieves” (2005), “Perro muerto en tintorería: los Fuertes” (2007) and “Ping Pang Qiu” (2012). Her productions “El año de Ricardo” (shown at In Transit in Berlin in 2011), “La casa de la fuerza”, “Maldito sea el hombre que confía en el hombre” and “Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (El síndrome de Wendy” had their world premieres at the Festival d’Avignon, the Wiener Festwochen and at the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris, respectively. For “La casa de la fuerza”, she received the 2012 National Award for Dramatic Literature, which is bestowed by the Spanish Ministry for Education, Culture and Sport. In 2013, she received the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale. Her play “Yo no soy bonita” was presented at Foreign Affairs in 2013. Currently, Angélica Liddell is working on a series of theatre pieces under the title of “Resurrection Cycle”. This includes “Tandy” (world premiere at Foreign Affairs 2014), “You Are My Destiny (Lo stupro di Lucrezia)”, which saw its world premiere at the Zagreb World Theatre Festival, and “Primera Carta de San Pablo a los Corintios. Cantata BWV 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden. Oh, Charles!”, which premiered at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in 2015.

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I'LL MAKE YOU INVINCIBLE WITH MY DEFEAT

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Directed and Performed by Angélica Liddell | Lighting by Carlos Marquerie | Sound by Félix Magalhães | Lighting Technician: Octavio Gomez | Stage Manager: Carmen Menager | Production Assistant: Mamen Adeva | Music: Edward Elgar, Concerto for Cello, performed by Jacqueline Du Pré, and 13th Concerto for Two Instruments in Unison by François Couperin, performed by Jacqueline Du Pré and William Pleeth | Producer: Gumersindo Puche

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Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production directors: Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Executive producer: Ricardo Frayha | Technical director: Julio Cesarini

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Mostra Sesc de Artes 2010

Sesc Santo Amaro

São Paulo, SP,  Brazil

27 and 28/11/2010