What She Saw in the Lotería Cards-Day of the Dead Berlin

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards
Poetic Ritual Theater in One Act
written by: Maria Garcia Teutsch
@marialoveswords

Come join us for an evening of fast theatre. Each scene is filled with images challenging any kind of proscribed reality by revealing its absurd bits through poetry, performance, music, art and dance. This collaborative project was hatched in the brain of Maria Garcia taking as her inspiration the Lotería cards she played with as a child. Día de los Muertos is the locus for these meditations on death, love, memory, and mythology as histories both personal and universal are entwined and unraveled. The entire performance is part ritual, part provocation, part procession, which takes the audience on a journey from the known to the perhaps unknowable parts of our collective psyche where we will meet to join forces on the astral plane in a chant for peace.

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards

Scene I: La Estrella/The Star: Norma Salazar
Scene II: El Pescado/The Fish: Alice Ududec
El Pescador/The Angler: Benjamin Monjar
Scene III: La Sirena/The Mermaid: Claire Uicker
El Pirata/The Pirate: Mwenda Phiri
Scene IV: La Luna/The Moon: Nora Stone Roig
El Sol/The Sun: River Atwood Tabor
Scene V: El Músico/The Musician: Valentino de Villa
La Calavera Catrina: Maria Garcia

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“I feel death in me, occasionally,” by Michaella Toscano

“Death’s Daughter,” by Uahuu Tujendapi

El Cantante/The Singer: Sara Shedden-Casanovas

Cinepoem: ReVoSkY: Ambrose Bye, Natalia Gaia, M. Garcia Teutsch

2 November 2023
doors open at 18:00 Uhr/6:00 PM, The Show starts at 20:00/8:00 PM
Galerie Z22
Zähringerstraße 22
10707 Berlin

Altar/Ofrenda to the Beat Poets: Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Joanne Kyger with mementos from their friends…

Photography by Allen Ginsberg

Theater, music, film, and poetry makes for much mayhem…more details to follow

Special thanks to:

Michael Willis for the creation of the Lotería Cards and graphics

Maquillaje y diseño: Greta Ciubuc Szabo

Sastre de teatro: Sara Matarozzi

El Técnico: Aris Pedrioli