REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL TOURS TO PUERTO RICO WITH MÁRQUEZ’S CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Repertorio Español, the acclaimed theater company from New York, is pleased to announce their upcoming tour to Puerto Rico. Repertorio Español and Puerto Rico’s Boundless Theater Company and will present Repertorio’s adaptation of Nobel Prize of Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, directed by Jorge Alí Triana. Performances will be Tuesday, March 6th through Friday, March 10th, 2012 at the Guaynabo Performing Arts Center in Puerto Rico.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by the renowned and acclaimed Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel García Márquez is the story of a spectacular wedding, followed by a stunning scandal and a savage murder of which everyone in a small Latin American town is an accomplice. When the story starts, Santiago Nasar is already dead, because he knows that the Vicario’s brothers are going to kill him. In fact, they have already done so, to avenge their sister’s honor, but the novel ends when Santiago Nasar dies. In this theatrical adaptation, conceived and directed by Jorge Alí Triana, the drama takes place in a bullring.

Jorge Alí Triana’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez opened at Repertorio Español in 1999 and has sold out in more than 500 shows, as part of Repertorio Español’s repertory and on tours around the United States. This adaptation has been presented in Moscow, Australia, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Costa Rica, Quito and Lima.

The production stars Richard Trujillo, Silvia Sierra, Gredivel Vásquez, Teresa Yenque, Mario Mattei, Pep Muñoz, Eric Robledo, Alberto Morgan, Marcelo Rodríguez, Mónica Perez Brandes, Gerardo Gudiño, Tatiana Vecino, Fulvia Vergel, Raúl Durán and Anthony Alvarez.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE IN PUERTO RICO:
Tuesday, March 6th – 9:30am; Wednesday, March 7th – 9:30am; Thursday, March 8th – 9:30am; Friday, March 9th – 9:30am; Friday, March 10th – 8:30pm

TICKETS on sale now at 1-787-902-3386

BIOGRAPHIES

BOUNDLESS THEATER COMPANY is a Puerto Rico and New York based Company founded by María Cristina Fusté in 2006. It is a designer-led organization committed to creating new productions of existing work that pushes the boundaries of cultural conception and gender. They are dedicated to the reinvention of stories, and the creation of imaginative, visually mesmerizing theater that serves our community. Boundless is responsible for the success of productions like “Tropical Tree” by Yukio Mishima, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” by George Bernard Shaw and “The Good Body” by Eve Ensler.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (Author) was born in 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia. He attended the National University of Bogotá and the University of Cartagena where he studied law. He soon turned to journalism in 1950 and began writing for El Espectador, a Bogotá newspaper. He transferred from journalism to nonfiction in 1955 when he serialized the story of a Colombian sailor who survived for days out at seas in Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor. During the same year he published his first fiction novel, Leaf Storm.

In 1958 he moved to Mexico City, where he began to write his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel was published in 1967 and it brought him global acclaim and various international awards. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include No One Writes to the Colonel, Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in his Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, Of Love and Other Demons and News of a Kidnapping.

REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL (Robert Federico, Executive Director; René Buch, Artistic Director; José Antonio Cruz, Associate Producer) was founded in 1968 by René Buch and Gilberto Zaldívar, to present the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre in distinctive, quality productions, and to bring theatre to a broad audience in New York City and across the country, including seniors, students and Hispanics of all national backgrounds. The organization has been awarded Drama Desk, OBIE and New York State Governor’s Awards.

JORGE ALÍ TRIANA (Director), hailing from Colombia, is one of Latin AmericaÂ’s most successful film and theater directors. In New York and for Repertorio Español, Triana has garnered great accolades for his successful stagings of novels from Latin AmericaÂ’s master authors. In 2008 he directed Jorge AmadoÂ’s Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands for which El Diario expressed “Much was expected of this production and Triana (the director) and the cast have surpassed these expectations… theyÂ’ve given us – from beginning to end — a sensual feast and a joyful celebration for all of us to enjoy.” In 2003, Triana adapted and directed Mario Vargas LlosaÂ’s The Feast of the Goat for which Bruce Weber from The New York Times stated that “the show makes eerily atmospheric pageantry…and vivid the wages of despotism, for a nation and for a man.” In 1999 Triana directed Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold, which The Village Voice called “Hypnotizing” and “Poetic.” Previously at Repertorio he directed The Innocent Eréndira also by García Márquez and And the Carnival Erupted an original play, which Howard Kissel for the New York Daily News, declared that was “staged with marvelous theatricality and skill.” Other theater credits include Romeo and Juliet and Richard III by Shakespeare; Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Triana has collaborated with Gabriel García Márquez in various film and theater projects including Tiempo de Morir (Time to Die) and Edipo Alcalde (Edipus the Mayor.) He has won numerous awards including the PeopleÂ’s Choice Award in Tolouse, France and the Golden Ombú Award for his film I am Bolívar. Triana has also received numerous ACE Awards (Association of Hispanic Theatre Critics). He is the founder of Bogotá’s Popular Theatre and currently directs at ColombiaÂ’s National Theatre and Repertorio Español.