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El maravilloso viaje de la mentira y la verdad.

Buenaventura, Nicolás, Fernández, Helios, Fernández, Aida, Buenaventura, Enrique, Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961, Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938, Teatro Experimental de Cali
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Title
El maravilloso viaje de la mentira y la verdad.
Author/Creator
Buenaventura, Nicolás, Fernández, Helios, Fernández, Aida, Buenaventura, Enrique, Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961, Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938, Teatro Experimental de Cali
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Access is open to all web users, Copyright holder: Teatro Experimental de Cali (TEC), Contact information: Claudia Rengifo, Calle 7 No. 8-63, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, +57-2-884-3820 (business), +57-2-883-2632 (fax), claren2302@yahoo.es, citeb@enriquebuenaventura.org, tec@enriquebuenaventura.org, jvidal@enriquebuenaventura.org, http://www.enriquebuenaventura.org
Language
Spanish
Date
©1990
Format
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (digital Betacam) (63 min.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Jacqueline Vidal, Enrique Buenaventura, Aida Fernández, Otoniel Romero, Gilberto Ramírez, Jaime Cabal, Hilda Ruiz, Jesús Mina, Aicardo Bonilla, Gladys Garcés, Nicolás Buenaventura, Enrique Buenaventura (introducer). Nicolás Buenaventura, Helios Fernández, Aida Fernández, writers ; Teatro Experimental de Cali, producer, videographer, set design, music ; based on 'The Black Decameron' by Leo Frobenius, 'Black Anthology' by Blaise Cendrars, and Margaret Mead's report on Sioux myths ; Pablo E. Garcés, lighting design ; Aida Fernández, Antonio Sanchez, costumes ; Jean Marie Binoche, masks ; María Eugenia González, props ; Pedro Rey, Jorge Lara, photographers.
Notes

Two old drunk, crazy witches - Verdad (Truth) and Mentira (Lie) - are condemned to wander around the world. They journey through a universe of myths and legends as ancient and contemporary as humanity. They visit the deserted and arid Village of the Hungry, the colorful Diulas Plane, the dense night of Bereber bandits, and the large desert of the Maasai. The whole trip works as an educating experience. Eventually, Truth and Lie go back to the place they left; thanks to their travel experiences, they have grown up and changed. The play is based on the anthologies of African myths and tales gathered by Leo Frobenius and Blaise Cendrars: 'The Black Decameron' and 'Black Anthology'. Black Africans constitute one of the ethnic groups of Colombia and TEC has always tried to rescue, redeem and celebrate the diverse roots of Colombian national identity. Teatro Experimental de Cali (TEC) is a collective of artists committed to the exploration and creation of new languages for Latin American theater. Founded in Colombia in 1955 by Enrique Buenaventura and a group of students at the Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes, TEC has had a long and fruitful trajectory; their artistic and theoretical work has revolutionized the way that theater is conceived and practiced in Latin America. A key contribution to the field is their method of 'creación colectiva' ('collective creation'), in which all the participants of the play - including the audience - become involved with the dramatic text and its staging. In spite of this stress on collective work, TEC had in Enrique Buenaventura its main poet and playwright, who developed most of TEC's texts and directed the majority of their plays. While TEC's works address various historical and social issues, artistic quality is not sacrificed for the sake of political radicalism. TEC has thus created a theater that is politically and culturally engaged, poetic and innovative without losing its popular appeal. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics