FACTO TEATRO
Facto Teatro is a company dedicated to creating and disseminating transdisciplinary paper theatre shows in different formats inside and outside of Mexico. They hold workshops in Mexico, Germany, the United States and Argentina to train new performers and groups in this bicentennial stage creation technique. They have presented shows in Mexico, the United States, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Canada and Argentina. They have also organized the Mexico City International Paper Theatre Festival since 2012.
For Múltiple they present three paper theatre plays for different audiences and an introductory paper theatre workshop taught by Alejandro Benítez, actor, puppeteer, drummer and founder and director of the Facto Teatro company and the Mexico City International Paper Theatre Festival, and Avelina Correa, actress and puppeteer with more than 30 years of professional career.
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
La peor señora del mundo
By Francisco Hinojosa
Adaptation: Cuarto Rojo and Facto Teatro
Direction: Ricardo García Arteaga, Avelina Correa** and Alejandro Benítez*
Production: Cuarto Rojo and Facto Teatro
Executive production: Raúl Morquecho
Acting and puppet manipulation: Avelina Correa** and Alejandro Benítez*
Design, construction of the theater and puppets: Claudia Castañeda, Alejandra Hernández, Viviana Sampil and Martha Rodríguez
Original music: Rodrigo Flores
Lighting: Eduardo Acosta
Costume: Avelina Correa**
Curtains: Mara Sparrow
Photo: Barbara Steinitz
SÁB.05.OCT
Showing 1: 1:30 pm
Showing 2: 4:30 pm
Duration: 45 min | For all audiences
Free admission | Limited capacity | No cost
In the north of Turambul lived the worst of the worst ladies in the world. She terrorized her children and the entire town, until one day they managed to trick her into doing the best bad things in the world.
This is a co-production of Cuarto Rojo and Facto Teatro.
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Cocinando con Leonardo
Based on the novel “Leonardo da Vinci Kitchen Notes” by Shelagh and Jonathan Routh
Adaptation and direction:: Alejandro Benítez* and Natalia Pérez Turner***.
Production: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and Facto Teatro.
Acting and manipulation of paper theater: Alejandro Benítez* and Avelina Correa**
Cello, musical arrangements and improvisation: Natalia Pérez Turner***
Stage design: Raquel Suárez Net y Alejandro Benítez*
Puppet design: Raquel Suárez Net, Mauricio Martínez and Claudia Castañeda
Stage and puppet construction: Raquel Suárez Net, Alejandro Benítez*, Mauricio Martínez and Claudia Castañeda.
Lighting design: Eduardo Acosta
SAT.12.OCT
Showing 1: 1:30 pm
Showing2: 4:30 pm
Duration: 45 min | For all audiences
Free admission | Limited capacity | Free
A paper theatre show based on the book “Leonardo da Vinci’s Kitchen Notes” by Shelagh and Jonathan Routh, which shows the little-known side of Leonardo da Vinci as a food lover, cook, ephemeral owner of a tavern and master of parties and banquets at the Milanese court for thirty years.
Recipe:
A bit of history, a generous portion of Italian genius and a part of paper theatre with another of live music are mixed together. Let it marinate in the cool of the night and we will obtain a compact show that will take us to immerse ourselves in one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s deepest passions: cooking and its secrets.
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Troka el poderoso
A one-man miniature theatre performance based on the character Troka the powerful by Germán List Arzubide
Direction: Pablo Cueto
Music: Silvestre Revueltas
Poems: León Felipe, Pablo Neruda, Manuel Maples Arce and Germán List Arzubide
Recordings: Ramón Alva de la Canal, Julio Prieto, Elvira Gascón and Germán List Arzubide.
Direction: Pablo Cueto
Production: Pablo Cueto and Alejandro Benítez*
Acting and manipulation of paper theatre: Alejandro Benítez*
Acting coach: Rubén Ortiz
Photo: Melissa Ortiz Massó
Lighting design: Pablo Cueto
Recording and editing of the musical track: Mauricio Martínez
SUN.20.OCT
Show 1: 1:30 pm
Show 2: 4:30 pm
Duration: 20-30 min | For all ages 7 and up
Free admission | Limited capacity | No cost
Troka is a robot made from different machine parts: it has a radio antenna head, two light bulbs in its eyes, its mouth is a horn, it has one foot like a locomotive, another like a tractor, and on its back it has airplane wings.
This Mexican superhero robot was the protagonist of a children’s radio program created by Germán List Arzubide and set to music by Silvestre Revueltas in the early 1930s, in order to bring Mexican children closer to the city’s new technological achievements and advances, such as industrial production or new means of transportation and communication. Troka el Poderoso is “the spirit of mechanical things.”
This adaptation of Troka el Poderoso is a miniature theater show based on the original character from the beginning of the 20th century, with poetry by Manuel Maples Arce, Germán List Arzubide, León Felipe and Pablo Neruda; engravings by Ramón Alva de la Canal, Julio Prieto and Elvira Gascón; and music by maestro Silvestre Revueltas.
WORKSHOP
Introductory workshop to paper theater
With Alejandro Benítez and Avelina Correa
SAT.26.OCT
11:00 am
Duration: 90 min | For all audiences from 6 years old
Previous registration | Limited capacity | No cost
Do you want to know how to build your own miniature paper theater stage and characters?
The Facto Teatro company invites you to create small universes made of paper, cardboard, wooden sticks, lots of black paint and your own imagination. You only need to bring a story you want to tell and clothes you can stain.
Facto Teatro has taught Paper Theater workshops in Mexico, the United States, Argentina and Germany since 2011.
* ALEJANDRO BENÍTEZ
Actor and puppeteer. He studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at UNAM’s Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Founder and director of the Facto Teatro company and the International Paper Theater Festival of Mexico City. He took the improvisation workshop at the Latin American Improvisation League and the acting improvement course with the teacher Ludwik Margules. He has participated in 42 theater shows as an actor, puppeteer, percussionist, co-director and / or co-producer in Mexico, the United States and Germany since 1991. Founder and director of the Facto Teatro company and the International Paper Theater Festival of Mexico City.
** AVELINA CORREA
Actress and puppeteer. She studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. She has taken numerous voice, dance, improvisation and acting courses with teachers such as Héctor Mendoza, Juan Felipe Preciado, Alberto Lomnitz, Linda Wise and Anna Strasberg. She has performed more than 70 professional productions since 1989 to date.
*** NATALIA PÉREZ TURNER
Cellist. Born in Mexico City. Cellist and improviser. Member of Liminar, Generación Espontánea, a free improvisation anti-band, and the Filera Trio. Her interests focus on contemporary and experimental music, improvisation, and collaboration with other disciplines: dance, visual arts, theater, performance, film, and literature. She has composed music for video art, theater, film, and dance. She has performed in different forums both in Mexico and abroad.
