2008 OUR THEATRE...  OUR CULTURE... 2009

18th

Season


Previous Activities


WELCOME to our 18th Season!

¡SOMOS Lo Nuestro!

Our Theatre... Our Culture...! 

Each time a new season approaches, we wonder what will work best and what we need to bring it about.  What do those who matter most to us – you, our friends – need or want to see?  And so we reach this moment of launch with the unsinkable feeling that you and we need and miss the same thing:  to feel and be a part of one, single area, one identity.  You and we are the same; we, like you, want to reach the same goal, dream the same dreams… Thank you for being so close to us, for being with us, for choosing us and knowing that this is OUR THEATER...

OUR CULTURE...!

Mario Marcel - Artistic Director


Summer Bilingual

Theater Workshops

for students 6 – 11 years old

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station -Green Line)

Would you like to dance, sing, act, build puppets?...

Then come and have some Summer fun with us!

1st Series July 21 - August 1, 2008

Final presentation Saturday, August 2 - 10am

2nd Series August 4 - 15, 2008

Final presentation Saturday, August 16 -10am

Mondays,  Wednesdays  &  Fridays
9am - 12 noon   ●   Morning session
2pm - 5pm   ●   Afternoon session

Cost: $200 per series

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227

AUDITIONS

2008-2009
               Season

Our Theatre... Our Culture...

TEATRO DE LA LUNA is holding an open call for AUDITIONS for its 2008-2009 season.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008  (5pm to 9pm)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (5pm to 9pm)

WHERE: Casa de la Luna 4020 Georgia Ave., NW Washington, DC 20011 (Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro Station -Green Line)

Interested actors should prepare a 2-minute monologue or a poem in Spanish.

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227

Arpas de América
Latin American Harp Festival
Harp Concerts
Artistic direction Berta Rojas
September, Friday 12 and

Saturday 13, 2008 - 7:30pm

at Rosslyn Spectrum

Come hear the strings of the Americas vibrate to the virtuosity of these brilliant harpists. Two unforgettable nights! An incomparable musical gift!

All funds raised benefit the 11th International Festival of Hispanic Theater


Bilingual Theater

Workshops

for students 6 – 11 years old

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station -Green Line)

Do you like theater?... Do you like puppets?... Would you like to write your own play?

So... come have fun with Teatro de la Luna’s world of theater!

Saturdays 9:30am - 11:30am
October 18 - November 22, 2008
December 6 - January 31, 2009

Cost: $150 per series

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227


XI International
Festival of
Hispanic Theater

Oct. 7 - Nov. 15, 2008

at Gunston Arts Center

Theatre 2

Ages: 15+  - In Spanish with live English dubbing

 

The area's only international theater festival! As always, this year's festival combines the vibrancy and sauciness of the New World with the introspection and avant-garde of the Old.


9th Young

People's

Poetry Marathon

in Spanish
at Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial Public Library
901 G St., NW, Washington, DC

Wednesday, December 10, 2008   (10am-noon)

Bancroft E.S., Bruce-Monroe E.S., H.D. Cooke E.S., Powell E.S., E.W. Stokes & LAMB P.C.S. (DC); Claremont E.S., Bailey’s E.S. for the Arts and Sciences, Graham Road E.S., Wolftrap E.S. (VA) and Maryland Intl. Day School (MD)

Thursday, December 11, 2008   (10am-noon)

ABC P.C.S., Lincoln M.S., Macfarland M.S., OLAS/WAVE Inc.,

WIS, Bell Multicultural H.S. (DC) and Gunston M. S. (VA)

Through the Experience Theater program, this event is dedicated to promoting the beauty of the Spanish language and awakening our young people’s interest in poetry and literature. Students recite original poems or those of their favorite poets in Spanish.

Parents and educators are encouraged to contact Teatro de la Luna at an early date to sign up their students - space is limited!


Dear friends...What did we accomplish in 2008?


ACTOR TRAINING

WORKSHOPS

in Spanish

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

  Metro Station -Green Line)

FIRST SERIES

Sessions: Tuesdays 7 pm - 9:30 pm from Jan. 6 to Feb. 17

Playreadings: February 25 & March 3, 2009 - 6:30pm

SECOND SERIES

Sessions: Tuesdays 7 pm - 9:30 pm from Mar. 17 to Apr. 21

Playreadings: Apr. 27 & 28, 6:30pm

Workshops are held in Spanish and are designed to provide professional quality, public readings of current and recent Spanish-language plays.

They focus on training actors in text interpretation and analysis and are open to adults and teens 16 and over. Prior theatrical experience is not necessary.

Cost: $60

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227

Teatro de la Luna is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.
This project is made possible through the generous support of
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

and the National Endowment for the Arts.


CHILDREN'S
THEATER FESTIVAL
Saturday, January 17, 2009
11am - 5pm

at  ROSSLYN SPECTRUM

All activities are bilingual

A full day of theater and much more!

Have fun, enjoy & share in the excitement!

Six hours of theater and other activities
to delight the entire family.
(Program of Events)

TEATRO LEÍDO
La Corbata

The Tie

by Alfonso Paso (Spain)
directed by Mario Marcel (Argentina)
a comedy in two acts
In Spanish Only
Wednesday, February 25 – 6:30 PM (Group I)
Tuesday, March 3 – 6:30 PM (Group II)

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro Station – Green Line)

Three different social classes experience the same predicament.

Although there’s no class distinction in comedy.

The final presentation of the First Interpretation and

Text Analysis Workshop Series.

TICKETS: PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN!

Space is Limited

Reservations Strongly Encouraged: 202-882-6227

This project is made possible through the generous support of 

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

and the National Endowment for the Arts.


Mujeres al Poder
Kick-Butt Women
based on Lady Godiva by Jean Canolle

adapted and directed by Mario Marcel

Feb. 12 - Mar. 7, 2009

at Gunston Arts Center

Theatre 2
In Spanish with English Surtitles
Farce   -   U.S. Première   -    Ages: 13+

From the first moment – as is well known – it was Eve in control. But if any doubt remained, during a most violent and war-torn époque, when all was invasion, military, knights, armor and screams, there appeared the soft, ethereal, sweet and blonde Lady Godiva. And although it wasn’t admitted at the time, She knew what to do. And so history continued till today, when we must again remember and call on... KICK-BUTT WOMEN!

Bilingual Theater

Workshops

for students 6 – 11 years old

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station -Green Line)

Do you like theater?... Do you like puppets?... Would you like to write your own play?

So... come have fun with Teatro de la Luna’s world of theater!

Saturdays 9:30am - 11:30am
March 14 - April 25

Cost: $150 per series

INFO/REGISTRATION: 202-882-6227

CHILDREN'S
THEATER FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 4
11am - 5pm

at  ROSSLYN SPECTRUM

All activities are bilingual

A full day of theater and much more!

Have fun, enjoy & share in the excitement!

Six hours of theater and other activities
to delight the entire family.
(Program of Events)

17th Poetry
 Marathon
"La Pluma y la Palabra"
THE PEN AND THE WORD

In Spanish only

Friday, April 17, 2009 (2pm-4pm)

at the Library of Congress

Mary Pickford Theater  -  3rd Floor, James Madison Building

Independence Ave. & 1st Street, SE, Washington, DC

(Capitol South Metro Station – ‘Orange’ and ‘Blue’ Lines)

Saturday, April 18, 2009 (2pm-8pm)

at Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20011

(Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro Station – Green Line)

The visiting poets who are bringing us and other faithful devotees of poetry the freshest in Hispanic poetry: Noni Benegas (Argentina-Spain), Eduardo Mosches (Argentina-Mexico), Sergio Badilla Castillo (Chile), José Acosta, León Félix Batista (Dominican Republic), Roberto Arizmendi, Iliana Godoy (Mexico) and María Ángeles Pérez López (Spain).

(Program of Events)


Theater for Children
at Public Libraries in D.C. and Arlington
Tickets: FREE
(Shows run approximately 45 minutes)

La Caja de

Sorpresas

The Box of Surprises

Bilingual

by Juan Enrique Acuña
directed Agustín Nuñez

Little ones will enjoy this show which teaches that everything can be achieved through hard work, good spirits, and a positive attitude.

Saturday, April 25 - 3:00 pm
at Petworth Neighborhood Library
4200 Kansas Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20011 - Tel: 202-541-6300

TEATRO LEÍDO

PLAYREADINGS

at  Casa de la Luna

4020 Georgia Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20011

Georgia Ave/Petworth

Metro Station – ‘Green’ Line

In Spanish Only

El Puente - The Bridge

by Carlos Gorostiza (Argentina)     directed by Mario Marcel (Argentina)

Tuesday, April 28 – 6:30 PM

In a convulsed, aimless Argentina, society collapses in decadence prior to World War II, its unprotected youth seeks a way through but encounters closed doors and insurmountable walls. And so a theatrical movement arises to challenge the status quo.

Nuestro Fin de Semana - Our weekend

by Roberto M. Cossa (Argentina)     directed by Mario Marcel (Argentina)

Thursday, April 30 - 6:30 PM

A permanent struggle for growth, to get somewhere, without letting go, to be real. A life between friends – between those who fight to arrive and those who fight to survive. The weariness and boredom of those who inherit promises and opportunities.

The final presentation of the Second Interpretation and

Text Analysis Workshop Series.

TICKETS: PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN!

Space is Limited

Reservations Strongly Encouraged: 202-882-6227

This project is made possible through the generous support of 

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Theater for Children
at Public Libraries in D.C. and Arlington
Tickets: FREE
(Shows run approximately 45 minutes)

ABE

un sueño cumplido

a dream fulfilled

Bilingual

written and directed by
Jacqueline Briceño

ABE the child, ABE the teen and ABE the President! Abraham Lincoln was one of the finest American presidents, well known not just in the USA, but throughout Latin America as well. He had a very interesting childhood and teen years. Come find out the important things that made him who he was, and created the man the world calls "The Great Emancipator".

Wednesday, April 29 - 4:00 pm
at Arlington Central Library
1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington, VA 22201 - Tel: 703-228-7713
 
Wednesday, May 6 - 10:00 am & 11:00 am
at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001

Rosa de Dos Aromas
Two-Scented Rose
by Emilio Carballido (Mexico)

directed by Mario Marcel (Argentina)

May 21 - June 13, 2009

at Gunston Arts Center

Theatre 2

In Spanish with English Surtitles

Comedy   -   Area Première   -   Ages: 13+

Two women meet casually. Nothing unites them ... except the same lover. Who stays with him? In a brilliant comic flash that has little to do with the lover, both end up happy. A fun-filled comedy, brimming over with humor and enchantment: the seal of Good Theater.

This production replaces “They Don’t Wear Black Tie”