Many of you will remember Felix, the brother of our director Nicolas, from his visit to Los Angeles earlier this year.
Felix is now back in Argentina with his own theater troupe! They are mounting a fascinating project called ¡Lazaro! - with Lazaro being a fictional historical character, a plot device to explore both human history and the history of theater. Felix's previous performances of his Cervantes program in London led directly to the original ideas that he and his troupe used in the creation of ¡Lazaro!
In the program for ¡Lazaro! Felix is Augusto Quadros and his traveling theatre troupe is the Hangar Troupe of London and Buenos Aires. We are in discussions with Felix about filming performances of ¡Lazaro! in both South America and Spain, where they will travel after South America.
Here are some introductory notes from the ¡Lazaro! program. We will provide future updates covering the troupe's travels:
Today “all the world’s a stage.” Art lives in the streets, in window shops, in the wrapping of a chocolate, as much as it 
lives in a museum, a circus, or a silver screen. Today, you can buy art, appreciate art, judge art, consume it, promote it or free it. Every body communicates. Everyone participates. Blue animates the walls in the streets; Kutiman makes music through YouTube videos. In this post-modern paradox Bansky is quoted in the art market but his signature is a stencil on a public wall.
During the development stages for ¡Lazaro!, Marco Fagotti’s music composition inspired the text and moments that then became scenes or events, such as the Operetta towards the end of the second act. Jacob Logos’ art found its place as the image of the play. The raw text inspired a composition work for Mathias Britos’ songs. In this way, each one of its parts contains an understanding from which a personal creation comes about. Through collaboration we continue to understand we are all playing on the same ground. This principle allows us to pursue telling one story in ten different ways, and not ten stories in the same way.
In ¡Lazaro!, theatre is the heart, the nucleus where the story, the characters, the transitions, the humour, the tone, find their essence. In theatre the action is nourished from its parts and creates a generous playfulness of spirit.
