LA INVENCIÓN DE LA HISTERIA
The Invention of Hysteria turns theater into one big therapeutic toy that feeds on the fear and repressed desires of actors.
In this play, a group of men, led by a stage director, performs a mysterious therapy session that consists in staging four uncanny dramas.
The public will witness this treatment that will end up revealing how the actors’ need to get love and approval from their director is, in reality, a direct path to madness.
SYNOPSIS
LIFE OF THE PLAY
October, 2014
(1st. version)
Premiere season at the Salvador Novo Theater at CENART
(National Center for the Arts).
The play was produced as a result of research conducted during the Master’s in Stage Direction at the National School of Theater Arts.
November, 2015
(2nd. version)
Season at the Carlos Lazo Theater of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
April, 2017
(3rd. version)
Season at Foro Contigo América.
May, 2017
Season at El Milagro Theater.
PROMO VIDEO
Playwright and Director
Luis Alcocer Guerrero
Assistant Director
Paco Vela
Cast
Ernesto García, Jorge Chávez Caballero, Héctor Iván González and Luis Alcocer Guerrero
Set Design, Pathetic Machines and Props
Alejandra Vega, Isabel Becerril, Mariana Rudich, and Jaime Castillo
Lighting
Miguel Moreno
Wardrobe
Alejandra Vega and Teresa Vega
Original Score and Sound Design
Rodrigo Castillo Filomarino
Music Comments and Musical Advice
Fernando Carrasco
Stage Direction Consultant
Martín Acosta
Production Consultant
Gabriel Pascal
Producers
Psychotronic Grand-Guignol Project
with the support of
INBA (Fine Arts National Institute) / ENAT (National School of Theater Arts)
Executive Producer
Diana Ham
Production Assistants
Noel Montes de Oca
CREDITS
“Very seldomly does a playwright who directs his play undress himself in such an explicit manner. Rather, we are used to see authors hiding themselves behind charades and thus “evading” their exposure as a narcissistic limelight. Luis Alcocer Guerrero dived into the deep end like a kamikaze who knows that it is all or nothing.”
Fernando Muñoz Castillo, Por Esto. November, 2015. Published also at
https://invisiblegazette.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/escenario-la-invencion-de-lahisteria/
“Luis Alcocer is now known for presenting a theater with grotesque, sinister and black-humor ridden foundations. Those who go see the show can be sure to witness a special and one-of-a-kind theatrical event. Very few playwrights and directors boast a poetic theatre like this author from Yucatan.”
Itzel Lara, Tierra Adentro.
http://www.tierraadentro.conaculta.gob.mx/category/blogs/itzellara-blogs
“...all of his psychotronic theater proposal seems shocking because of its touching and absurd facet, because of its belonging to the fantasy realm itself. Skillfully created B-moviesque theater.”
José Ramón Enríquez, Reforma. February 19, 2015.
http://busquedas.gruporeforma.com/reforma/Libre/VisorNota.aspx?id=5526680%7CInfodexTextos&md5=a20f28e da2697aa36ba3f6ea04bbe0c1