and Four Worlds Research Group presents:
CON CARNE, Y SIN PESCADO.
Colombian adaptation of the play by Derek Walcott.
(Santa Lucía, Caribbean. Nobel for Literature, 1994)
Oscar Javier Martínez and Luis Fernando Borja in Beef, no Chicken by Derek Walcott. (Photo: Carol Maritza Hurtado)
Sponsored by:
Arts Direction, Ministry of Culture
University del Valle - Pacific Branch
Theatre Department, University del Valle
XIV Pacific Book Fair and University Week
Directed by: Manuel Viveros, Everett Dixon
Colombian Adaptation: Manuel Viveros, Everett Dixon and the Young Artists' Workshop
Assistant: Diego Burgos
Project Director, Four Worlds Research Group: Everett Dixon
Production Manager: Carol Maritza Hurtado
Marling Rentería, Jhon Erick Caicedo and Jency Rentería in Beef, no Chicken. (Photos: Carol Maritza Hurtado)
What is progress? For many people, progress is the materialization of their dreams, but few think in the consequences of progress. In these times of globalization, open markets, and free trade treaties, the aspiration to belong to the so-called first world can make us forget our priorities as human beings who belong to a community: to forget our principles and our respect for others. Palo Mojado, our Pacific Coast version of Walcott's Couva, is a metaphor for any place where the constant aspiration of the distant provinces to acquire a better life is confronted with the necessity to conserve the old traditions which the new life wants to destroy.
Oscar Javier Martínez, Luís Fernando Borja and Marling Rentería in Beef, no Chicken by Derek Walcott. (Photo: Carol Maritza Hurtado)
Derek Walcott (Santa Lucía/Caribe, 1926)
Caribbean poet and playwright born on the little sovereign island of Santa Lucía (140.000 inhabitants), who works in the United States and Trinidad, Walcott is considered one of the greatest poets in English of the twentieth century. His works develop a remarkable dynamic between a highly refined traditional English and Caribbean patois, with its fusion of African, Asian and European elements. The conflict in his plays and poems often revolves around the necessity for progress but the urgency to preserve lost traditions, and has much in common with another great Trinidad writer, V. S. Naipaul. His masterpiece, Homeros, for which he won the Nobel prize in 1992 (twelve years before Naipaul), is a modern version of motifs from the Odyssey, where the Aegean is replaced by the Caribbean. In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and with them wrote and premiered a series of excellent theatre plays which are still unknown in the English-speaking world.
Marling Rentería in Beef, no Chicken by Derel Walcott. (Photos: Carol Maritza Hurtado)
CAST
Faustina Silva, a woman from the Atlantic Coast: Jency Rentería
Otoniel Posso, restaurant and auto shop owner: Jhon Erick Caicedo
Epifania Posso, his sister: Marlin Rentería
Haragan (Radio), an idler: Luís Fernando Borja
His CD Player: Oscar Javier Martínez
Luís Pérez, schoolmaster: Ricardo Buenaventura
Carmenza Douglas, Otoniel's niece: Angie Yulieth Arroyo
Danilo Maldonado, a television newscaster: Oscar Javier Martínez
First Bandit: Ferley Salazar
Second Bandit: Yey Freddy González
The Mayor, also called Pablo Dos Santos: Edison Herrera
Lucy Balanta, widow: Angie Yulieth Arroyo
Don Toribio Viafara, member of the Municipal Council: Adolfo Hernández
Don Lai-Fuk: member of the Municipal Council:Ferley Salazar
Fernando Taylor, ex-merchant seaman: Oscar Javier Martínez
El Diácono, a vagabond preacher: Jhonny Castillo
Setting: Palo Mojado, a village in any part of Latin America, in the present.
