In Other Words - reviews Argentina
Excerpts from articles in Observador Global, Abcultural and Imaginación Atrapada as well as audience comments translated from Spanish.
"BEAUTIFUL…AND PAINFUL… TERRIBLE AND LATENT MEMORIES….
SOFT AND PROFOUND IMAGES… CONGRATULATIONS!” –
- FLORENCIA FIRPO
"A sharp cry, an empty space where pain takes its form and transmits through time. This play, that is a work of art and a cry that remembers…
....She seems peaceful, smiles when she speaks and her voice seems as if it doesn´t have the strength necessary for the subject matter. But she does…
In Other words, another way of giving form to the violence and remembering through art things that must not be forgotten and must never be allowed to happen again. Never again."
Jose Luis Ferrero, ObservadorGlobal.comSource - http://observadorglobal.com/el-espacio-oscuro-de-la-memoria-n3244.html
"THE STORY, THE IMAGE, WHAT IS SAID, WHAT IS LIVED, WE NEED TO SPEAK
ABOUT THIS BUT WORDS ALONE, WITHOUT IMAGES, DON’T TRANSMIT EVERYTHING.
I FEEL THAT YOU WERE THERE AND THAT THESE STORIES ARE ALSO YOURS."
- CAROLINA RESTAURO
"When the performance ends, the applause invades the space and the lights are
turned up, those words remain exposed to be read, now part of the space and piercing with their gaze. The spectators slowly go closer, but little by little they lose their shyness and explore the immensity of the space, the perfect place to perform a piece with these characteristics that pays tribute to alternative theatre."
Laura Gilardenghi, abccultural Source - http://www.abccultural.com.ar/nota.php?ID=534
There are no monsters, just human beings capable of monstrosities…
Diego Braude, Imaginación Atrapada
Source: http://www.imaginacionatrapada.com.ar/ArtesVisuales/2009/11/03/in-other-words-heridas-abiertas-que-se-replican/
"Thank you for this kind of theatre. In my opinion, theatre is not
entertainment; it is an obligation and a social action. Remembering
is an uncomfortable but fundamental exercise for the identity of all humans.
Thank you for coming to Argentina to show us your art."
- Anonymous
Eyton Rd - February reviews
Melbourne & Cape Town
"... incredibly precise, painstakingly crafted in terms of the minutia
of bodily movement and visual stimulation, meticulously scripted, often
sparking literary nuggets of great power and impact, but also very quiet,
very still, cognisant of the overflowing of silence and deadspace as the
body, mind and soul gets caught in the liminal sites between places,
between times, between desires, resigned to always be en route… "
An incomplete and unresolved meditation on Infecting the City, Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town
"A slide night but not as you remember it. No '70s pics of mulleted
uncles, rather a collaboration of two artistic minds...
City Search, David Killlian Editorial, http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/arts/1137621362723/Eyton+Road
"...intricately weaved into a menagerie of stained glass, woodcarvings and longing for places visited and unvisited."
Melbourne Arts Hub: Melynda Woodward, February 06,
http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/news/performing-arts/theatre-review-eyton-road-176745
"...Some moments of overwhelming power..."
- Arnold Zable
"... an intimate, deeply affecting exploration of how our familial
histories and geograhies shape our own lives. Moving between Melbourne,
Italy, Eastern Europe and Cape Town, this is a piece that is personal but
has universal significance..."
- Julian Jonker
“…a profoundly moving work about loss, memory & displacement... Staged in the intimate Distrix Hall on the outskirts of District Six, Eyton Rd is haunted by the melancholic memories of forced removals and displacement that have robbed people& their communities - both here in South Africa and across the world - of their sense of place."
A Road Less Travelled,http://www.infectingthecity.com/wp-content/uploads/itc09_friday_enewsletter.pdf.
In Other Words - Australia reviews
"... Chalef infuses this performance with a movement vocabulary
that oscillates between quiet stillness and violent tremolo allowing us to comprehend the poetry of trauma, as well as the trauma itself..."
Beyond Words, Tony Reck, Realtime, Issue 90
"This is a short strange work that unfolds only gradually, but its a deeply rewarding journey."
Show of the Week, John Bailey, The Age,
"In Other Words is theatre not as you know it..."
The Weekend Starts Here, Rohan Trollope, The Age
"An ambitious collaboration between artist/animateur Talya Chalef
and her talented team..."
The Critical Guide, The Age
"The aural and visual are set to collide when In Other Words opens next week...!"
Lessons to learn about reconciliation, David Chen, The Melbourne Times
"...Surreal fragmented worlds collide with real places in Talya Chalef's latest production..."
Dealing with Shared History, Arts Beat, Darren Levin, Australian Jewish News.
“...congrats on ‘in other words’. I found the work took me on a journey that was very special. The piece wraps and encapsulates people in a space that they then importantly take images of the work with them. Days after,
the words, dialogue and images return and play with your thoughts and the issues- it was very powerful”
- Jill Morgan – Executive Officer Multicultural Arts Victoria
“Stories begin, merge into others’ stories, disappear and re-emerge in another form. At times it is a slow, mesmerizing dance, at other times rapid-fire and confrontational. It is the kind of meaningful site-specific work both in terms of its content and style that I think is so important, integrating the human being into what can be a quite sterile new-media/installation form. It is both theatrical and political.”
Liz Jones – Artistic director, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
that oscillates between quiet stillness and violent tremolo allowing us to comprehend the poetry of trauma, as well as the trauma itself..."
Beyond Words, Tony Reck, Realtime, Issue 90
"This is a short strange work that unfolds only gradually, but its a deeply rewarding journey."
Show of the Week, John Bailey, The Age,
"In Other Words is theatre not as you know it..."
The Weekend Starts Here, Rohan Trollope, The Age
"An ambitious collaboration between artist/animateur Talya Chalef
and her talented team..."
The Critical Guide, The Age
"The aural and visual are set to collide when In Other Words opens next week...!"
Lessons to learn about reconciliation, David Chen, The Melbourne Times
"...Surreal fragmented worlds collide with real places in Talya Chalef's latest production..."
Dealing with Shared History, Arts Beat, Darren Levin, Australian Jewish News.
“...congrats on ‘in other words’. I found the work took me on a journey that was very special. The piece wraps and encapsulates people in a space that they then importantly take images of the work with them. Days after,
the words, dialogue and images return and play with your thoughts and the issues- it was very powerful”
- Jill Morgan – Executive Officer Multicultural Arts Victoria
“Stories begin, merge into others’ stories, disappear and re-emerge in another form. At times it is a slow, mesmerizing dance, at other times rapid-fire and confrontational. It is the kind of meaningful site-specific work both in terms of its content and style that I think is so important, integrating the human being into what can be a quite sterile new-media/installation form. It is both theatrical and political.”
Liz Jones – Artistic director, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
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"... set in Melbourne's old city Watch House amid iron doors and blue stone walls, this one woman performance uses sound & light to take the audience on a trip through a haunted history..."
Bold Trek uncovers a city's old haunts, MX newspaper, April 3 2006
"The Site theatre space may be tiny(40seats) but the audience guaranteed to experience an ethical debate of great cultural and political significance..."
Theatre relies on a body of evidence, Gretel Hunnerup, Melbourne Times
"Talya's performance projection is a broader mapping of the ways former lives inhabit the contemporary moment and trouble progressive agendas, such as urban renewal. site thus gains a texture and richness as it travels for it juxtaposes stories of one place onto and through the spaces of other societies....."
Dr Karen Till, University of Minnessotta, August 2005
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