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Saturday, June 17

El cantar del playo or… a song is a rose is a thorn

Mario Barrantes Espinoza
  • 14+
  • LNP
Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal
Start 20:30, End 21:50

You appeared in my mind on the dance floor last night. You were smiling back at me. Mom sings in the living room. The radio is on. “How can I not admire you… if all the time I carry you in my mind, in my dreams and in my heart”. Love, my head is spinning.

The romantic music of various Spanish-speaking artists as far back as the 1960s is popular again… now these songs fuel the nightlife of Costa Rica in the early 2010’s. Plancha, as the genre was later called, revived the nostalgic music that our mothers and grandmothers listened to while doing housework (música de plancha literally translates into ‘music for ironing clothes’). The songs are full of theatricality, often celebrating the fantasy and suffering of romantic love, closely linked to telenovela culture and to the art of transformistas (drag queens). Fifty years later, plancha became an emotional oasis for the younger playo community of the capital, serving as the joyous soundtrack to a celebration of playo identities. 

Over de maker
With his debut project
El cantar del playo… (‘the singing of the faggot’), Mario Barrantes Espinoza transforms the stage into a landscape of memories. A place where melodrama, songs and visual poems invoke his personal explorations of queer sexuality and identity, from the perspective of a Central American migrant in Europe.

credits

Concept and performance Mario Barrantes Espinoza
Artistic assistance Theo Livesey
Text
Theo Livesey, Martín Zícari, Mario Barrantes Espinoza
Music arrangement and sound design Pablo Lilienfeld
Music direction and voice coaching Ignacio Jarquín
Light designRyoya Fudetani
Costume design Flávio Juán Núñez
Video projections Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc
Artistic accompaniment Manu, Martín Zícari, Stefa Govaart
Production Hiros
Coproduction Het TheaterFestival, VIERNULVIER, C-takt, KAAP
In collaboration with Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk), workspacebrussels, DE SINGEL, KVS, Kunstenwerkplaats, wpZimmer, PARTS, Decoratelier
With the support of de Vlaamse Overheid
Photo’s: Michiel Devijver

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Buy your ticket
Saturday, June 17

El cantar del playo or… a song is a rose is a thorn

Mario Barrantes Espinoza
  • 14+
  • LNP
Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal
Start 20:30, End 21:50

prices

  • Tot 18 jaar € 10,00
  • Adults€ 18,00
  • Student€ 10,00
  • U-pas€ 10,00

Omdat deze voorstelling onderdeel is van ons openingsprogramma, zijn er op dit moment geen kaarten beschikbaar. Op een later moment zal er een beperkt aantal kaarten vrijkomen.

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credits

Concept and performance Mario Barrantes Espinoza
Artistic assistance Theo Livesey
Text
Theo Livesey, Martín Zícari, Mario Barrantes Espinoza
Music arrangement and sound design Pablo Lilienfeld
Music direction and voice coaching Ignacio Jarquín
Light designRyoya Fudetani
Costume design Flávio Juán Núñez
Video projections Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc
Artistic accompaniment Manu, Martín Zícari, Stefa Govaart
Production Hiros
Coproduction Het TheaterFestival, VIERNULVIER, C-takt, KAAP
In collaboration with Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk), workspacebrussels, DE SINGEL, KVS, Kunstenwerkplaats, wpZimmer, PARTS, Decoratelier
With the support of de Vlaamse Overheid
Photo’s: Michiel Devijver

prices

  • Tot 18 jaar € 10,00
  • Adults€ 18,00
  • Student€ 10,00
  • U-pas€ 10,00

Omdat deze voorstelling onderdeel is van ons openingsprogramma, zijn er op dit moment geen kaarten beschikbaar. Op een later moment zal er een beperkt aantal kaarten vrijkomen.

Buy your ticket Discount? Passe-Partout
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