Creador y director Jan Lauwers
Protagonista Gaby Hernández
La compañía NeedCompany
Discipline: Theater
Duration: 80 minutes
Recommended for: +16
Languages: English (version with Viviane De Muynck) | Spanish (version with Gaby Hernández)
In 1999, Belgian artists Viviane De Muynck and Jan Lauwers began working on a theater version of the last chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses, a radical monologue spoken by Molly Bloom, the unfaithful wife of the principal character, Leopold Bloom. What they did not expect, though, was for the author’s grandson to send them a series of offensive letters forbidding them from using this material. Nevertheless, they managed to hold secret dramatic readings of this version in Germany, which were well-received by critics.
Twenty-two years later, once the copyright on James Joyce’s work had expired, De Muynck became Molly Bloom once again. At 74, one of the grande dames of European theater performs in a play that, in these #MeToo times, reinforces the need to talk about emancipation, equality and sexual freedom for women. She is not the only one to bring the leading lady to life though: Jan Lauwers, who has taken part in the festival before in 2009, with a touching version of El cuarto de Isabella also starring Viviane De Muynck, directs a version starring renowned Chilean actress Gaby Hernández.
CREADORA, DIRECTORA Y PROTAGONISTA
Viviane De Muyinck
This Belgian theater, movie and television director (1946) began a long-standing artistic collaboration with director Jan Lauwers and Needcompany in 1993, touring the world with them in starring roles. As well as her work as an actress, she has also directed theater plays and musicals. In 2018, she won the ...
CREADOR Y DIRECTOR
Jan Lauwers
Born in Antwerp in 1957, he is one of the most avant-garde artists on the European artistic scene. He founded Needcompany in 1986, a company that is involved in various aspects of the performing arts (theater, dance, performance and the visual arts) and is a pioneer of multilingual productions (Dutch, ...
PROTAGONISTA
Gaby Hernández
This theater, movie and television actress started her career at the University of Chile’s Experimental Theater, where she trained as a performer. At 24, she went to work in Mexico, then the United States and then Spain, where she lived until 1988, when she returned to Chile. Since then, she ...
LA COMPAÑÍA
NeedCompany
Created in 1986 by Belgian artists Jan Lauwers and Grace Ellen Barkey and later joined by Maarten Sehgers, this multidisciplinary group’s work is mainly based on avant-garde scripts that are constantly pushing the boundaries of art and promoting its importance in society. Their work has been presented and lauded throughout ...
CAST & CREW
Concept and directed by: Jan Lauwers and Viviane De Muynck | Cast: Gaby Hernández | A production by Needcompany | Coproduced by: the Teatro a Mil Foundation.
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