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TUES 4/8 @ 8:50PM

REAS

Documentary

Director:

Lola Arias

Year:

2024

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

Argentina, Switzerland

Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel to Europe, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a transman who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail. Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long-term inmates or newly admitted: in this hybrid musical, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison. REAS is a collective work that reinvents the musical genre: the performers dance and sing about their past in prison, relive their life as fiction, and invent, through fantasy and imagination, a possible future for themselves.

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Yoseli tiene un tatuaje de la Torre Eiffel en su espalda y siempre ha querido viaje a Europa, pero fue arrestado en el aeropuerto por tráfico de drogas. Nacho es un hombre trans quien fue arrestado por estafa y formó una banda de rock en la cárcel. Gentil o rudo, rubios o rapados, cis o trans, reclusos que ha estado allí por largo tiempo o recién ingresados: en este musical híbrido, todos representan sus vidas en una prisión de Buenos Aires.

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Lola Arias

Lola Arias is a writer, theatre and film director and performer. She collaborates with people from different backgrounds (war veterans, former communists, Bulgarian children, etc.) in theatre, literature, music, film and art projects. Her productions play with the overlap zones between reality and fiction.Since 2007, she has developed her work in the field of documentary theatre. Her last theatre plays are Minefield (2016), which brings together British and Argentine veterans of the Falkland / Malvinas war to share their experience of the conflict and life since, Atlas des Kommunismus (2016), which puts together stories of women between the ages of 8 and 84 with GDR backgrounds (Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin) and What they want to hear, a reconstruction of the real case of Raaed Alkour, a Syrian Archeologist, who got trapped in the german bureaucracy without any statute for four years. Her feature film Theatre of war (2018), starring the same protagonists as her theatre project Minefield, was selected for the 68th Forum of the Berlinale Film Festival. Her works for theatre have been performed at festivals such as: Lift Festival, London, Under the Radar, NY, Festival d’Avignon, Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Wiener Festwochen, Festival Theaterformen, Brunswick/Hanover, Spielart Festival, Munich, and Berlinale, as well as in venues like Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Redcat, LA, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Parque de la memoria, Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Royal Court Theatre, London.

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Lola Arias es una escritora, directora y actriz del teatro y películas. Colabora con gente de diferente orígenes (veteranos de guerra, excomunistas, niños búlgaros, etc.) en el teatro, literatura, música, películas y proyectos de arte. Sus producciones juegan con las zonas entre la realidad y ficción. Desde 2007, desarollo su trabajo en la rama de teatro documental. Su última obra de teatro es Minefield (2016), que reúne veteranos de Inglaterra y Argentina de la guerra de las Malvinas/Falkland, para hablar sobre sus experiencias del conflicto y sus vidas desde entonces, Atlas des Kommunismus (2016), que reúne las historias de mujeres entre las edades 8 y 84 con antecedentes en la RDA (Maxim Gorki Theather, Berlín); y What they want to hear, una reconstrucción del caso real de Raaed Alkour, una arqueólogo que quedó atrapado en la burocracia alemana sin ningún estatus durante cuatro años. Su largometraje Theatre of War (2018), protagonizado por los mismos protagonistas de su proyecto teatral Minefield, fue seleccionado para el 68º Foro del Festival de Cine de Berlín. Las obras de teatro de Lola Arias han sido actuadas en festivals como: Lift Festival, Londres; Under the Radar, NY; Festival d’Avignon; Theater Spektakel, Zúrich; Wiener Festwochen; Festival Theaterformen, Brunswick/Hanover; Spielart Festival, Múnich; y Berlinale, así como en lugares como Théâtre de la Ville, París; Redcat, Los Ángeles; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; y Royal Court Theatre, Londres.

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