(PSYCHOTRONIC GRAND-GUIGNOL PROJECT)
In a post-human future, only mummies are interested in disemboweling with serenity and humor the mysteries of the lost world of the living.
From that future, a group of mummies brings a philosophical variety show for us:
a staging of the end of humanity,
a conference on the end of theater art,
a ballet on the love between a steak and a bone,
a choreographic lesson on the language of mummies.
The sum of all parts does not tell a story, but rather, it raises a theme and formulates a question:
How does one cultivate love and preserve the joy of living in a context so adverse and bleak as ours?
SYNOPSIS
GALLERY
By David Flores Rubio
Playwright, Director and General Producer
Luis Alcocer Guerrero
Cast
Luis Alcocer Guerrero, Omar Francisco Armella, Jorge Chávez Caballero, Fafa Echeverría, José Alberto Gallardo and Arturo Serrano
Set Design and Wardrobe
Martha Alejandra Vega
Lighting and Assistant Producer
Noel Montes de Oca
Original Score and Sound Design
Rodrigo Castillo Filomarino
Executive Producer
Diana Ham
Producers
Psyhotronic Grand-Guignol Project,
with the support of the 2017 Promotion Program for Cultural Projects and Joint Investments (a National Fund for Culture and the Arts program), and Traveling Dramaturgies.
We thank the National Fund for Culture and the Arts for their support in producing this play.
GENERAL CREDITS
Winner of the 2017 Promotion Program for Cultural Projects and Joint Investments (a National Fund for Culture and the Arts program)
This play presented also at ENARTES 2018 Scenic Arts Market
April – May, 2018
Season at Foro La Nabe
August – October, 2018
Season at La Teatrería
July 8, 2017
Beginning of the premiere season at Foro La Nabe
March, 2018
Season at the Carretera 45 Cultural Center
LIFE OF THE PLAY
“Acting that goes through genres, as if you were walking into the deep and crossing doors, a dance that grabs emotion without letting go, looking at two opposing bodies that gravitate, mummies with huge eyes dancing or rebuking, the play is on. It breathes.
Alcocer Guerrero and his artistic team propose bright and dark landing strips, incessant multiple actions, give blows with different intensities that refer us to a known reality and straight away to another one that we have ignored…”
Alegría Martínez, “From One Reality to Another,”
Milenio, Laberinto. July 22, 2017.
http://www.milenio.com/cultura/de-una-a-otra-realidad
“His work as a director is impeccable, well-designed choreography, good use of space, precise rhythm, use of image and sound at the service of the representation. […] A well-integrated and committed team that offers good acting and formidable corporality.”
Eugenia Galeano, “Theater of Mummies,”
A escena. July 29, 2017.
http://aescenateatro.net/2017/teatro-de-momias/
“The show pleases, convinces, questions, goes to psychosocial depths, and even more so, peaks with the most captivating roles of dramatic universality. I highly recommend this production.”
Gonzalo Valdés Medellín, “Theater of Mummies,”
Siempre. April 21, 2018,
http://www.siempre.mx/2018/04/teatro-de-momias/
“Using meta-theatrical elements where the same play is seen as such and makes fun of itself, challenging the binomial limits of human sexuality and delving into both homoerotic and queer territories, and with a particular sense of humor that can snatch a guffaw and at the same time provoke and transgress viewers, Alcocer Guerrero defies a whole series of theatrical canons to explore and create his own voice, a sound that is somewhat grotesque, strident, fascinating and hypnotic at the same time.”
Juan Carlos Araujo, “Theater of Mummies,”
Entretenia. May 3, 2018.
http://entretenia.com/teatro-de-momias/
“…the author-director takes on the role of an image creator whose meaning is based on the amplitude of the symbol, similar to the work of painters and sculptors […] The staging is also a way of giving back to the viewer his right to think for himself.”
Juan Hernández, “The Caustic Humor of Post-human Existence,”
El Universal, Suplemento Confabulario, September 8, 2018.