La Odisea (The Odyssey)

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Event La Odisea (The Odyssey)
Venue Maidment Theatre, Auckland CBD, New Zealand
Umbrella Event Auckland Arts Festival 2011
First Date 8 March 2011
Opening Date 8 March 2011
Last Date 12 March 2011
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Latino passion comes to Auckland in La Odisea, a spectacular new rendering of Homer's Odyssey by Bolivia's pre-imminent theatre company Teatro De Los Andes.  La Odisea features astonishing acting and live Bolivian music in a dynamic staging of the classic tale, retold  with all the flair and other-worldliness of Latin American storytellers. La Odisea (The Odyssey) is a spectacular treat from Bolivia's Teatro de los Andes. Cinematic in scope, La Odisea is a retelling of Homer's Odyssey in which Ulysses is a Latino immigrant seeking to return to his home and family in Bolivia, after years of working menial jobs abroad. Ulysses' return is met with discrimination, racism, and prejudice, an experience common to many returning immigrant workers. His tale, woven together from an array of different storylines, draws upon Teatro de Los Andes' research of migrant lives, as well as their personal experiences of migration, and life in Bolivia. Performing to sell-out audiences at the Ibero-American Festival in Bogota, La Odisea features astonishing acting, live Bolivian music and song, and dynamic staging. It offers an opportunity to experience the otherworldliness of Latin American storytellers, well known for magical-realism in literature, but whose theatre we rarely get to see.
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Music
Storytelling
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Text Nationality Bolivia
Production Nationality Bolivia
Event Status Completed
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Web http://2011.aaf.co.nz/events/la-odisea.aspx.html
Library Collection Auckland Arts Festival 2011 website - archived by the National Library via https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/wayback/20110323070046/http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 157487