POVNIA - Clown
I was lucky to have the best directors I could have: Cristina Martí and Guillermo Angelelli. I was also lucky to premiere Povnia in one of the most beautiful festivals I knew, the Clownin - International Clown Festival in Vienna, in 2010. Thanks to Povnia I traveled to many places, shared a program with great clowns like Gardi Hutter, Nola Rae, Hilary Chaplain, Pepa Plana, Marta Carbayo, Montse Trías and many others, and met incredible spaces and people.
International Festivals: Clownin, Naschpiel, FIC Innsbruck, FIC Pallasses al Circ Cric, FIC Palhaças en Brazilia, FIT Rafaela, FIT Santa Fe, Teatrazo, FIC San Pedro Clown, Festiclown Bolsón...
SYNOPSIS:
Una (this is the name of our protagonist) falls -literally- on stage. She arrives with the memories of her little world. Her latest belongings. She claims to be a survivor of the chain of catastrophes that occurred in Povnia, a lost place that could be located between Opa and UR
She is, suddenly, an involuntary immigrant who does not know the language and the rules of the place where she arrives. She's far from home, her friends don't show up, and she has almost nothing except problems. But she is alive. And, although it seems that calamities do not stop happening to her, without denying what she lost, Una is always replenished. She accepts, reinvents, rebuilds, relearns, clings to what she finds, falls in love with the new, discovers in everything, in every little gesture, in every look, something that drives her forward.
Povnia speaks of losses and encounters, of the need for contact, of vital impulses. It goes through what died, but also what is born. And it stays there: where it starts.
An independently produced show. With subsidy from INT and PROTEATRO
DATA SHEET
Una is Lila Monti
Direction of Cristina Marti and Guillermo Angelelli
Creation Monti + Martí + Angelelli
Direction assistance Silvia Aguado / Andrés Kyle
Costumes · Marisa geigner
Shoes · Javier Moyano
Props and accessories · Valeria Alvarez
Music · Guillermo Rey and Agustín Flores Muñoz
Lighting design · Ricardo Sica
Graphic design + Map Andrew Kyle
Photography · Juana Ghersa
General production · Lila Monti