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Theatre

Dirección: Gerardo Naumann | Texto: Theo Fernández, Joaquin Zuanich, Leon Llach, Gerardo Naumann | Actúan: Jesús Vouillez, Luz Rubio, Mariana Chmylko, Verónica Avellaneda, Daniel Elias, Gerardo Naumann | Producción: Sofía Medici, Gabriel Zayat | Asistencia de producción y dirección: Violeta Postolski | Arte y espacio: Alejandro Ros | Dirección musical: Teo Lopez Puccio | Movimiento: Luciana Acuña | Mirada externa: Aljoscha Begrich

Gerardo Naumann

Director

Born in 1974 in Buenos Aires. Graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences (University of Buenos Aires - UBA) and completed undergraduate courses in Philosophy and Literature (UBA). Currently holds the chair of the subject “Art and Social Politics” at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM).

Among his theater works are: Cosas, Emily, Una obra útil, La fábrica, La función, Trabajadores saliendo de la fábrica, El carterista, Los trabajos improductivos, and El lugar del hecho. His plays have premiered at festivals in Buenos Aires, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, India, France, and Singapore.

In film, he directed the short films Novios del campo and El trabajo industrial, as well as the feature film Ricardo Bär (co-directed with Nele Wohlatz). His films have participated in more than 20 international festivals. He has taught Screenwriting (UBA), Theater Directing at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and Hochschule für Gestaltung (Karlsruhe, Germany).

He served as thesis supervisor at the Akademi for Scenekunst, National Academy of the Arts (Norway), and as project tutor for theater works at MAKE Theatreforum Ireland (Ireland). He led a directing seminar at the Dublin Theatre Festival titled “Cities as Text.” He has received grants from Fundación Proa, Fundación Typa, and Theaterforum Berlin, where he participated in a seminar on “political theater.”


Work in Progress: La economía argentina

By Gerardo Naumann

  • Argentina
  • 60 minutes

La economía argentina is both a musical theatre production and a small business. The small business has an owner: the show’s director, who wants to stop being an artist and become an entrepreneur. The actors in the show are the company’s employees. Or is it the other way around? Are the actors the employees of the small business?

There’s a hall-of-mirrors effect. In the small business, everything that happens in the Argentine economy happens too: the owner promotes his product through the show, searches for a potential partner who might be sitting in the audience, presents different investment options, and even offers jobs to spectators. And in the show, everything that happens in the Argentine economy also unfolds: a company launches, there’s inflation, crisis, layoffs, a strike, negotiations, giant bars of soap chasing the workers, and songs—lots of songs.

Onstage, soap is actually produced, from mixing raw materials to packaging. We watch it glide—calmly—along the assembly line right in front of us. When the performance ends, the soaps are sold at affordable prices. Their brand? “La economía argentina.”


Dates:

Dirección: Gerardo Naumann | Texto: Theo Fernández, Joaquin Zuanich, Leon Llach, Gerardo Naumann | Actúan: Jesús Vouillez, Luz Rubio, Mariana Chmylko, Verónica Avellaneda, Daniel Elias, Gerardo Naumann | Producción: Sofía Medici, Gabriel Zayat | Asistencia de producción y dirección: Violeta Postolski | Arte y espacio: Alejandro Ros | Dirección musical: Teo Lopez Puccio | Movimiento: Luciana Acuña | Mirada externa: Aljoscha Begrich

Gerardo Naumann

Director

Born in 1974 in Buenos Aires. Graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences (University of Buenos Aires - UBA) and completed undergraduate courses in Philosophy and Literature (UBA). Currently holds the chair of the subject “Art and Social Politics” at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM).

Among his theater works are: Cosas, Emily, Una obra útil, La fábrica, La función, Trabajadores saliendo de la fábrica, El carterista, Los trabajos improductivos, and El lugar del hecho. His plays have premiered at festivals in Buenos Aires, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, India, France, and Singapore.

In film, he directed the short films Novios del campo and El trabajo industrial, as well as the feature film Ricardo Bär (co-directed with Nele Wohlatz). His films have participated in more than 20 international festivals. He has taught Screenwriting (UBA), Theater Directing at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and Hochschule für Gestaltung (Karlsruhe, Germany).

He served as thesis supervisor at the Akademi for Scenekunst, National Academy of the Arts (Norway), and as project tutor for theater works at MAKE Theatreforum Ireland (Ireland). He led a directing seminar at the Dublin Theatre Festival titled “Cities as Text.” He has received grants from Fundación Proa, Fundación Typa, and Theaterforum Berlin, where he participated in a seminar on “political theater.”

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