A performance 'alla Dario Fo' with an anti-prologue, prologue and a collection of characters that take us to the tragic bottom that must exist in all comedy. A fiery comedy rooted in the spirit of Lorca´s Tragedies, as current as our popular tradition: "a theatre for and with the people".
- Donato Sartori
Museo Internazionale della Maschera (IT)
Created and performed by
Founder and Artistic Director Manifesto Poetico
Masks
Den Durand and Donato Sartori
Solo dell'Arte is a surprising and moving journey of masks in a new and Contemporary Commedia dell'Arte, demonstrating the omnipresence of this form of art in theatre and cinema. With nothing more than an empty space, leather masks and the audience, García Estévez takes us on two journeys where human nature plays the leading role.
-Dario Fo. Actor, writer. Nobel Prize for Literature, 1997
is the love story of Manuel Lopez de Baranda, a solitary old man born in the south of Spain. Everything happened fifty years ago the night of the celebration, the Night of Santiago.
" Do not trust the full moon on summer nights! It drives people crazy..."
is an artist who works in a Parisian nightclub, two streets away from the famous Moulin Rouge. Lolo works in a all-night convenience store and every night makes a pizza delivery to Lola.
- Pascale Lecoq - École Jacques Lecoq, París
- Sara Romersberger, Stage Director, Dallas 2013
Carlos García Estévez is an international artist born in Spain. He is Artistic Director of Manifesto Poetico, an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.
Manifesto Poetico comes from Carlos’ 25 years of research and productions done internationally. He has also performed and directed in over 20 different countries and over 45 different Universities. Over his career he has developed his research into multi-style mis-en-scene, inter- disciplinary productions and devised theatre that is contemporary. The success of his work and the enthusiastic response from the audience comes from a reinvention of traditional- popular theatre. As he learned from Dario Fo, Carlos keeps the spirit of popular theatre in order to create new contemporary theatrical languages that speak to audiences today.
He directs shows, workshops, TransPoetico Productions and research projects in Europe, North, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Recent creations directed by Carlos include Nama Kamu Atas Perahu (Kuala Lumpur, 2013), Tito’s Dream (USA, 2014), Bogota In Action (Bogota, 2015), New York Lands (New York, 2016), Klassiek van de Toekomst (Haarlem, NL, 2017), Hann: Voices of a Bay (Dakar, Senegal 2018), Pulse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018), The Gate of Hope (Guadalajara, Mexico 2019), BELFAST 1919 (Belfast, NI 2019), In The Name Of Humanity (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2021) and If I Listened… (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2022).
He is currently touring his solo performance Solo dell’Arte. It has been in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Argentina, Romania, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Cyprus, Greece, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
Other artists with whom he worked include Donato Sartori, Yoshi Oida, Dario Fo, Simon McBurney, Peter Sellars, Marcello Magni, Gennadi Bogdanov, Pierre Byland, Eric de Bont, Kevin Crawford and Kaya Anderson (Roy Hart – Voice technique), Mario Gonzáles (Theatre de Soleil), José Luís Gómez (Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid), Tapa Sudana (Tribuana master and a former actor of Peter Brook’s company) and Miquel A. Barceló.
Carlos will be remounting the TransPoetico Production, In The Name Of Humanity, (Part Three of The Epic Borders Trilogy), in Manitoulin Island at The Debajemujig Creation Centre (June to August 2022).
Carlos performed with Simon McBurney – Complicite in A Dog’s Heart and The Magic Flute and with Peter Sellars in Girls of the Golden West.
He participates as a movement director for opera at DNO (Dutch National Opera Academy) and Hollands Diep Muziektheater.
He trained with Jacques Lecoq for three years, both at his École Internationale de Théâtre and at L.E.M. (Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement). He is regularly hosted as a teacher at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris in the Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.) where he is an associate artist and co-contributor to the unique research undertaken there.
Carlos directs, performs and teaches in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
