Un milagro en una milésima de segundo
MACBETH
“Nothing is but what is not"
Author: William Shakespeare
Stage director: Farley Velásquez
In this work we bring William Shakespeare's work to contemporaneity by changing his swords for pistols, his dukes for gangsters and their kings for drug lords. We believe that the essence of Shakespeare is the human condition and the eternal challenges of men existence in love , power, ambition and death.
The first time we took this Macbeth to the stage was in the nineties. Making a parallel with the political, social and economic events of that time in the city of Medellín. Seeking for knowledge about our human behaviors, as the capacity of beauty and badness that inhabits all of us, we meet with Macbeth, one of the most representative characters of Shakespeare's theater.
"Life is just a wandering shadow, an actor that dies on stage, never to be heard again."
LA MUJER DE LAS ROSAS
"When love refuses to die"
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
Free version of “Alguien desordena estas rosas” of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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This is the story of a boy and a girl that appear in between the flowers, the swings of the air, the fallen leaves of the wings, and that suddenly, are separated by death, out of the blue, forever. The doors to the past and the present open and close incessantly and a display of sublime music lends its atmosphere to the silence that comes from the absence of words. And then, swift, persistent, infinite and high the sorrow of who stays alone is perceived: the girl, from this side of life, and the boy, from that side of death.
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Twenty years pass, the girl comes back to the house turned in a woman dedicated to the farming of roses. The boy that is now a man tries to make her feel his presence of several ways. The woman notices, she knows someone is accompanying her, lives with her and is disordering the roses she cultivates. Despite the proximity, the man has to wait for her to age until death is the one that takes his loved one by her arm for the long waited reencounter.
Author: William Shakespeare
Stage director: Farley Velásquez
King LEAR
William Hazlitt, the English critic of the XIX century, said that everything that can be told about Lear is not enough to describe him. We think he was right.
It's little or even nothing what helps to this play comprehension and assimilation, to affirm that this is the major tragedy of all tragedies because of its essential motors: the suffering and pain, that are present from the beginning to the end.
It's little or nothing to say that is a superb, dark and irascible play, because its characters are revealed in a frankly superior humane dimension, precisely for the sake of their deep thoughts and their powerful feelings that are shown to go further than ours.
And it's still a bit to say that is a political drama in the most domestic sense of the term, meaning the sense of an irremediable blood tragedy between parents and children, actually very close to the spirit of Sófocles and The Bible.
This play have to be enjoyed in the escene its own, that is to say in its true existence, that even being ephemere, is not for that less trascendental. This is how, the theatre LA Hora 25 assumes what is may be its biggest risk: The King Lear staging.
The staging is a mix of the Shakespeare theatre and the german theatre of Müller. It's compounded by 5 scenes that suggest a vanguardist sthetic through a great discharge of words and images.
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The play is rich of climates and has a mix of expressionism and surrealism with an horror atmosphere.
The script doesn't tells neither the contemporary Hamlet story, nor the psychological nature of any character, but it shows the horror that reveal "the ruins of the world", the unease of the "daily consumption-battle".
Consumerism - says Müller- is the practice of the people in the disappearance process of human beings. Every good is a weapon, every supermarket a battle camp. That points the need for art as a mean to make the daily reality posible.
HAMLET MAchINe
Author: William Shakespeare, Heiner Müller
Stage director: Farley Velásquez z
eL PAÍS DE LAS MUJERES HERMOSAS
Original Idea of Farley Velásquez
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
Those invited to these monologues will see four women who will dramaturgically recount their testimonies that are based on true stories. The monologues are situated in a social, political, and anthropologist sphere. With this play, the Theatre of La Hora 25 inquire into the dramaturgy of the social occurrence and in the process identified in the process of different topics as displacement, uprooting and abandonment caused by more than fifty years of violence in our country.
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The movement of the physical actions, forms an organic tissue that tells the story of the women from a perspective of the tribute to love in its absence.
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The script sets up a metaphoric referential body, that wakes up inside the spectator evocations from the familiar outline.
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The scenic structure is developed with a sustained sustenance of images, generated from the testimonies of the four women that are protagonists of the stories. We reference with them the social occurrence dramaturgy.
El País de las Mujeres Hermosas
rehearsing SHAKESPEARE
Author: William Shakespeare, Heiner Müller
Stage director: Farley Velásquez
A play made for the lovers of Elizabethan theatre, for the lovers of Shakespeare. This montage is a Shakespearean Festival in which the public will witness the adaptations of six of the pieces of the English playwright that Teatro La Hora 25 has presented: Richard the III, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet in the times of Noise and Hamletmachine, this last adaptation of the texts of Heiner Müller.
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The spectator will learn about Shakespeare and will get to know what we know of him and his work, witness the secrets of a theatre group prepared and devoted ceremoniously to the artistic creation. Even further, they will feel the pain in their skin and the dancing of their hearts with the love of Romeo and Juliet, the ambition of Macbeth, the craziness of Ophelia in Hamlet, the evil of the world in Richard the III, the filial ingratitude that suffers King Lear and the fragmentation of reality in Hamlet Machine.
The usurper, duke of Gloucester, Richard, is located in the dramatic center of this Shakespearean tragicomedy. Richard, hiding his diabolic plans behind benign appearances, gives a reason for his brother Edward IV to suspect his other brother, George, duke of Clarence.
Richard weaves a chain of uncontrollable crimes against his own family, friends, enemies, and whoever tries to intervene with his master plan: wearing the royal crown on his head. Victims and culprits create and suffer a countless amount of infamies, betrayals, and deceptions that will lead to their death, the ruin of themselves, and the kingdom.
Heads will roll in this macabre game that seems to have no end.
Author: William Shakespeare,
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
rICARDO III
"The prince-killing King"
eros & thanatos
Author: Michel Azama,
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
A new version of the play “Crossfire” by the French playwright, Michel Azama.
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It tells the story of a frontier of horror in which a civilization teaches the art of murder and the only possibility for catharsis is in the next gun shot.
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It is a war poem, of all wars. It is the portrait of everything we have been through, of what we have seen and heard but don’t dare to mention, because it is so hard to talk about death that we have dress it as love.
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And in our days, love comes in the name of democracy to massacre whole towns; in the name of religion to decapitate others; in the name of private property to murder women; and in the name of fear to discover our inability to be with ourselves.
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Few times Eros comes in the shape of love and Thanatos in the shape of transformation.
Autor de quien se hace la adaptación: Federico García Lorca
Director de puesta en escena: Farley Velásquez
Adapted version of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca in which the humor, the sarcasm and the irony tells the story of two opposite families and a woman divided by two lovers; one for convenience and the other for love.
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This is a parody of our customs that are as loyal to devotion as to double moral. In it, the characters play with colloquial sayings and an exaggerated wardrobe to make the tragedy of this woman a comedy that reflects about social and familiar decomposition, in this city where money is better than love.
Author: Federico García Lorca
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
De Dos amores
¿Dónde Estás amor?
"I call this play a tragedy because is full of those constant questions that we ask the gods, questions that have no answers," Farley Velásquez.“
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Men and women of the city wander in a fragmented social reality that gives no respite to life, freedom or rebellion. The characters are particles of a uniform mass. They are immersed in a society that overwhelms them with routine, and diminishes them with the violence.
The thoughts of Heiner Müller, Carlos Mario González, Gonzalo Arango and Farley Velásquez come alive to ask and ask to the public about what we all think we know, but still do not know how to live with: love. What love are you talking about?
Author: Heiner Müller, Carlos Mario González, Gonzalo Arango
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
ELECTRA
“Who did such, that such pays"
Author: Eurípides
Stage Director: Farley Velásquez
After the murder of her father, at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, Electra keeps a word in her mind: revenge.
In this Greek tragedy, Electra, is expelled from the palace and married to a peasant by design of the usurper king Aegisthus. She looks forward to his brother's returning from exile, to recover the justice of the primordial order.
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Finally, the blood of the adulterous mother and her usurper lover will be spilled; and the two brothers will be consumed by the backwardness of love and hatred.
Children's Plays
Turmalina
"The Currulao's Cinderella !”
Author: Charles Perrault
Stage Director: Carola Martínez Bandera
Three fairies weave the threads of the story of our Cinderella.
They go through the versions of this, the most popular fairy tale in the world, and come to the story of Turmalina, The Cinderella of Currulao.
The girl in this story lives in the magic kingdom of Cordoto, with her stepmother and her stepsisters, who never stop denying Turmalina the great dream of her life: dancing the Currulao.
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However, our Cinderella will wash away her fears and enjoy the royal dance where she will finally meet the prince of Cordoto and together they will share her 3 passions: singing, dancing and loving.
Las aventuras de don quijotiz de la mancha
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Stage Driector: Carola Martínez Bandera
Originally, this is the story of a gentleman who is from La Mancha and is in his fifties. On this occasion, our noble knight is about nine years old and will set out in search of adventures after reading and playing with the cavalry books, so popular in the sixteenth century.
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Our Quijotiz embarks on a series of adventures , disguised as a walking knight, with the little Pancino and the young Dulcinea del Toboso. And carries with him his toy weapons and his old horse in the shape of a skateboard, which he calls Rocinante.
Its purpose is to undo all the grievances of the world, which for him, are those that keep us from being children and spending our lives on what we love. And because of this, he imagines that nothing is what it appears to be.
Rafael Pombo is one of the most important writers, poets and fabulists of Colombia. His stories and fables are still read and represented, awakening the interest of children and adults. We select a series of stories that are an adventure cruise to meet a man who dedicated his whole life to writing.
How not to remember Rin Rin Renacuajo, La Pobre Viejecita, Mirringa Mirronga, Simón el bobito, etc. All these characters that have been immortalized in the memory of children and adults.
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We will travel to the wonderful world of fantasy.
cuentos pintados
"It's summer and it's sunny!”
Author: Rafael Pombo
Stage Director: Carola Martínez Bandera