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Venezuelan Moisés Kaufman, Mauricio

Broadway as well regarded. Jane Fonda is he capable of breaking a fast stage 45. Tony nominee and Emmy, the renowned playwright and director in a while Venezuela had the thorn had not mounted in Venezuela any of his own works. In two weeks, finally submit indecent acts in Venezuela: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, the first piece that premiered at New York's tables for 13 years.

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Photo Lara Alcántara / New York

Moisés Kaufman has no free time these days. The only way to talk to the playwright is to call on his cell phone from a commitment to another. "I'm eating but I can speak. Do not you care, right?" Excuses. In it a striking feature which will emerge in a few minutes, on one hand it will be obvious that the sensitivity of an artist as much as is necessary to consider it on Broadway a sort of iconoclastic purpose. But on the other, it is also clear that pragmatism is an administrator, the same who graduated from the Metropolitan University and worked Procter & Gamble before moving to New York for over 20 years. And talk about his aesthetic research, neither cut in mind that this interview will be brief. His speech navigating between a side and one without holes, as if his brain wiring had learned to connect the two hemispheres without shorts, without falling networks without whales twitterers to show that the strange consistency has reached full capacity.

At 47, Kaufman Caracas prepares for his first ride on Broadway. "The last thing he had done in Venezuela was run at the 2006 International Theater Festival of Caracas, a play called I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, but he had never directed a play in my own country. It has long wanted to do but was too busy. I talked to my friend Michel Hausmann and stayed together in co-direct the assembly of indecent acts: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, who was the first work of mine which opened in New York. "Here, the writer Oscar Wilde is tried before British society by his homosexuality and his affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. In a joint casting and Hausmann Kaufman, the cast was composed by Javier Vidal, Christian McGaffney, Juan Carlos Alarcón, Alejo Felipe and Rolando Padilla, among others.


"I am also very excited to participate Ivosky Fernando, who was my teacher in the drama group of the Unimet Thespis. That's where I started doing theater," he reveals. "When I graduated I told my parents that left them there the title of government because it got to them, but what I wanted was to study this, was there when I mixed the two offices for a year while resolved how to go until the following year I went to the University of New York to study theater. At the end did not finish because I felt I had come a long way and wanted to do things myself, so I started my own company. " Tectonic Theater Project, whose name refers to the structural and dynamic drama opened in 1991. In 1997, Ac-tion indecent was the simultaneous release of Kaufman as a playwright and director in New York, in a few months, the New York Ti-month included it in the top 10 most influential people in the U.S. cultural environment that year . Hailed by critics, the piece had 600 performances in New York and offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and the West End. According to the website of his company, the work has been produced and performed in several countries and more than 40 U.S. cities.

"I know that in Venezuela there is much expectation acts inde-cent and it's nice you can finally show it there. That excites me." "Nerves, perhaps? "Writing is always a personal act; up creative expression on stage always brings risks. When asked if Robert Redford ever nerves were removed and I said no, he preferred them. I also prefer them because I to calibrate what I'm doing. " If asked what it depends on Broadway, he thinks. "It's hard work, luck, magic, talent. I from an early age had a passion for the theater, but the rest is always in the hands of the gods.

Mine is love and work. "


Drama closely.

Michel Hausmann founder of Palo de Agua Productions and producer of musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof and Jesus Christ Superstar realizes the work style Kaufman. "We have shared credit because someone has to help here, but has performed indecent acts in many ways and he always said he wanted to make their own version here. We're bringing New York to lighting designers and scenery to make it look exactly as they rode past 13 years, "says the producer." Moses is retail and himself translated the work into English. While waiting to come to Caracas to be tested, we send you videos of the progress and he makes us his observations. "

A Kaufman script is not resolved within days. In fact, it is famous for his extensive research to write each piece .

in indecent acts, we enter historical documents, letters and biographies of Wilde's life.

The Laramie Project for a play based on a real case concerning the death of a homosexual student in the town of Laramie, Wyoming met in site to hundreds of people. He returned 10 years later for the life of the people and update the site with an epilogue. No wonder, TLP is ranked as one of the most represented in colleges and universities in the U.S.. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation starring Peter Fonda, Laura Linney, and Christina Ricci. The tape broadcast by HBO was selected for the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and won a special mention at the Berlin Film Festival. With it, Kaufman received two Emmy nominations after best director and best writer.

Barbarella to Beethoven. Write


33 Variations a play about an ill musicologist who studies the inexplicable 33 variations of Beethoven on a waltz by Diabelli simpleton took three years of documentation. For the lead role in 2008 Kaufman focused its batteries to the actress Jane Fonda, who for over 45 years is not up to the tables. "I explained what it was, read the material and liked it immediately. I also felt very comfortable with it," he said. "He's the most collaborative director I've ever worked with. It is completely open to ideas and contributions of people. It's as if there was a theater director, but a visionary bandleader," Fonda said at the time for AP. Ultimately, the play earned him five Tony Award nominations, including Best Play.

Their sources of inspiration, he says, are random. The Laramie Project

arose following the news.

33 Variations, in a conversation about Beethoven with a record seller. Do you write thinking of the public or the critics? "None. I am more concerned to first understand the characters, but I really do not know how I choose not know where to get ideas, if at a party at a bookstore in a classroom. It's like those people you fall in love, period. In this regard, to the theater to me is like falling in love: do not know where you to find those ideas nor the choice. "

In times of next-generation phones, Twitter, 3D cinema and HDTV, Kaufman believes that the role of theater is further explored.

" The only way to be important part of the dialogue is to continue the search for a profound aesthetic research, new theatrical languages, matching issues and a curiosity rather than individual works, "he says." And the Tony? "The awards can be dangerous if one takes it as a popularity contest. Go that is like chasing the tail. No doubt pleased to receive recognition, but try to keep full to communicate to others something of the human condition, "says he just sent the piece in Los Angeles Bengal tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph and prepares the direction of his first opera, El Gato con Botas, the late Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge. "When I write or direct a play and people leave the room, I hope it has recognized in itself something real that you felt or experienced before. I hope you feel less alone. "



Source: Todo en Domingo