My Life After / Mi vida después — Lola Arias (Argentina) | FESTIVAL AKCENT 2014

Actors: Blas Arrese Igor, Liza Casullo, Carla Crespo, Vanina Falco, Pablo Lugones, Mariano Speratti, Moreno Speratti da Cunha
 Written and directed by Lola Arias.*
Dramaturgy: Sofía Medici.
Music: Ulises Conti.**
Set desing: Ariel Vacaro.
Choreography: Luciana Acuña.
Video: Marcos Medici.
Light design: Gonzalo Córdova
Costume design: Jazmín Berakha.
History Advisory: Gonzalo Aguilar.
Photos: Lorena Fernández.
Production:  Gustavo Kotik.
* The play was written with the collaboration and original material supplied by the actors.
** The music was composed with the collaboration of Liza Casullo and Lola Arias.
 
Oppened on March, 26, 2009 at CTBA.
 
Coproduced by:
Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, steirischer herbst, Theater Spektakel Zurich, International Summer Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival and Grand Theatre Groningen.
With the special support of: BIT Teatergarasjen, Spielart Festival and Goethe Institute.

Lola Arias ( Buenos Aires, 1976)
Lola Arias is a writer, director, performer and songwriter. She collaborates with artists from different disciplines in theatre, literature, music and art projects. Her productions play with the overlap zones between reality and fiction. She works with actors, non-actors, musicians, dancers, children, babies, and animals.
Centre stage in Striptease (2007) is occupied by a baby, while its parents fight out a duel by telephone. In El amor es un francotirador (2007), the performers relate true and fictional love stories while a rock band plays live. In Mi vida después (2009), six actors reconstruct their parents’ youth in 1970’s Argentina by means of photos, letters, cassettes and old clothes.

She staged in Germany Familienbande (2009) at Kammerspiele, Munich, and That Enemy Within (2010) at HAU, Berlin. In Chile, she staged The year I was born (2011), based on biographies of people born during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Her last piece Melancolía y Manifestaciones ( 2012) opened in Vienner Festwochen.
Together with Ulises Conti, she composes and plays music, and released the albums El amor es un francotirador (2007) and Los que no duermen (2011).
Her projects with Stefan Kaegi are Chácara Paraíso (2007) involving Brazilian police officers, and Airport Kids (2008) featuring global nomads aged between 7 and 13 years old. In 2010-12, they curated a Festival of urban interventions Ciudades Paralelas in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich, Singapore and other cities.
She published Las impúdicas en el paraíso (2000), La escuálida familia (2001), Mi nombre cuando yo ya no exista (2005), Poses para dormir (2005), Striptease/Sueño con revólver/ El amor es un francotirador (2007), Mein leben danach (2010), Liebe ist ein Heckenshütze (2010) and Los posnucleares (2011).
Her texts have been translated into more than seven languages, Lola Arias’ works for theatre have been performed at festivals including Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Festival d’Avignon; Theater Spektakel, Zurich; We are here, Dublin; Spielart Festival, Munich; Alkantara Festival, Lisbon; Radicals Festival, Barcelona.

www.lolaarias.com.ar