{"id":6886,"date":"2015-11-01T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2015-11-01T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:57:08","slug":"teatro-circulo-comes-to-baruchs-nagelberg-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/2015\/11\/01\/teatro-circulo-comes-to-baruchs-nagelberg-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Teatro C\u00edrculo Comes to Baruch’s Nagelberg Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor from “La Caida de Rafael Trujillo”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For nine days only, Teatro C\u00edrculo,\u00a0the popular Hispanic theater group,\u00a0recreated Carmena Rivera\u2019s\u00a0La ca\u00edda de Rafael Trujillo<\/em> at Baruch College\u2019s Nagelberg Theater.<\/p>\n

La Ca\u00edda de Rafael Trujillo<\/em>, or The Fall of Rafael Trujillo<\/em>, tells the story of the oppressed peoples in the Dominican Republic under the leadership of Rafael Trujillo. Throughout his time as dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo was responsible for a great amount of bloodshed and terror. This societal uproar is presented as one of the main themes of the play.<\/p>\n

Each\u00a0performance was two hours and fifteen minutes long. They were performed in Spanish, with English subtitles on the side screen.<\/p>\n

Baruch junior\u00a0Alessandra Gomez praised the institution for hosting “compelling shows” in different languages. She explained, “The fact that the Nagelberg Theater features plays…in different languages allows for a more international audience. You don\u2019t need to be fluent in Spanish; that\u2019s why there are subtitles. This adds an extra layer to the play I really enjoy.”<\/p>\n

Teatro C\u00edrculo was founded in 1994 by a congregation of Latino artists and academics, who were looking to present classical seventeenth century Spanish theatre as well as the works of contemporary Latino artists. \u00a0According to their website<\/a>, the team has “a commitment to preserving and promoting Latino cultural heritage through the commissioning, production and presentation of creative, inclusive and educational theatre works.”<\/p>\n

In the last decade, Teatro C\u00edrculo has won more than fifty awards for excellence in Hispanic theatre, an Off-Broadway Theater Award for their\u00a0classical work, numerous Asociaci\u00f3n de Cronistas de Espect\u00e1culos (ACE) de Nueva York Awards, and a number of Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors Awards.<\/p>\n

La ca\u00edda de Rafael Trujillo<\/em>, written by Carmen Rivera and directed by Candido Tirado, was nothing short of “spectacular” to audience member Jody Flores, who is a recurring spectator of Teatro C\u00edrculo\u2019s work. Flores commented on the scenery and lighting, calling them “amazing” and remarking\u00a0on the performance\u2019s “fantastic acting.”<\/p>\n

Ana Medina, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who came to the United States twenty years ago, said that the play reminded her of her grandmother\u2019s stories when she was younger. She said that she “found a lot of [her] grandparents in the play,” going on to say, “‘DR’ under Trujillo was chaos. People felt hopeless and confused. The fact that this performance captured this chaos proved every scary anecdote my grandmother shared–the tears and the screams–to be true. This is important. People need to see this and experience Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.”<\/p>\n

Teatro C\u00edrculo is now playing both La ca\u00edda de Rafael Trujillo<\/em> and Los titingos de Juan Bobo<\/em>. \u00a0For the company’s full calendar as well as past events, visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.teatrocirculo.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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