The Worst Woman in the World, a paper theater performance with Alejandro Benítez and Avelina Correa
In the north of Turambul lived the worst of the world's worst ladies. She terrified her children and the whole town, until one day they managed to trick her into doing the best bad things in the world.
The Worst Woman in the World by Francisco Hinojosa
Adaptation: Red Room and Facto Theater
Direction: Ricardo Garcia Arteaga, Avelina Correa and Alejandro Benítez
Production: Red Room and Facto Theater
Executive Production: Raúl Morquecho
Puppet acting and manipulation: Avelina Correa and Alejandro Benítez
Design, construction of theater and puppets: Claudia Castañeda, Alejandra Hernández, Viviana Sampil and Martha Rodríguez
Original music: Rodrigo Flores
Lighting: Eduardo Acosta
Costume: Avelina Correa
Backdrops: Mara Sparrow
Photo: Barbara Steinitz
It is a co-production between Cuarto Rojo and Facto Teatro.
Actor and puppeteer. He studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. Founder and director of the Facto Teatro company and the Mexico City International Paper Theater Festival. He took the improvisation workshop at the Latin American Improvisation League and the acting improvement course with 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.
FIG: @benitez_alejandro
Actress and puppeteer. Avelina has a degree in Dramatic Literature and Theater from 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 more than 70 professional performances from 1989 to date.
FIG: @correa_avelina
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
