CHAVELA

 

CHAVELA

[Chavela, the Last Shaman]
Producciones Rokamboleskas
Dramaturgy and stage direction Carolina Román
With Rozalén, Luisa Gavasa, Paula Iwasaki, Raquel Varela and Laura Porras
Composition, musical direction and live musician Alejandro Pelayo (Marlango)

1.45 h (w/out intermission)
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photo ©Sergio Parra

‘If we think of our existence as a ball of yarn, we always pay more attention to the life end and less to the  death end.
Chavela Vargas came into the world to sing truths with her heart and with the dagger of her voice. She once said: ‘I am not going to die because I am a shaman and we do not die, we transcend’.
María Isabel Anita Carmen de Jesús Vargas Lizano returns home after a long tour, her last one. Her friend ‘La Pelona’ is coming to pick her up in three days and Chavela oscillates between the edge of this world and the other. From time to time she forgets who she is, but a red thread takes her far away; to those places ‘where she loved life’, to a limbo of memories that visit her before departure. There, an old woman waits for death, a wounded girl rules inside a woman and a myth becomes eternal.
The characters appear and vanish in a staging endowed with magical realism. Each night, we will channel ‘the Myth’ who will sing to us and take us to that dreamlike world.
Chavela will teach us to look at ourselves in her free and decisive mirror, living, dying and becoming eternal.
That is why Chavela Vargas is much more than all that. Chavela is all of us, and we are all Chavela. Raise your glass and let's toast to this death that becomes life. Join this transit of terminal lucidity and ascend with her up those steps to reach heaven, to her heaven’. Carolina Román
Chavela Vargas will transport us to a magical world. A universe full of truth, love and pain, where passion and freedom come together in a hymn to life…

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