Horacio Czertok, co-founder of Teatro Nucleo, has been invited to attend the 8^th edition of Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum.
In addition to acting as a pedagogue at the works table dedicated to the training of actors and directors of the circus and street theater, Horacio Czertok also presents the monologue Contra Gigantes at the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg.
Contra Gigantes is extracted from the show for open spaces QUIJOTE! that for thirty years has gone through theaters and streets in many countries around the world.
In 1990, in fact, Horacio Czertok wrote a dramaturgy for Teatro Nucleo company from the masterpiece of world literature Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. In co-production with the Theater-am-Turm in Frankfurt, the show has had over 400 performances in three continents, participated in dozens of international festivals but above all has gone through villages and suburbs without theater.
After a few years, the Argentine dramatist and actor transformed the show for open spaces, Critics' Award at the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato (Mexico), in the soliloquy Contra Gigantes, pointing the lights on those giants - a metaphor for the forces that hinder the transformation of society - against whom the errant knight fights.
And Don Quijote is not the only protagonist of Contra Gigantes: together with him on stage there are Sancho Panza, Don Miguel de Cervantes and Czertok himself, all in close relationship with each other and with the spectators, to compose a monodrama with multiple voices, which will give an immediate interpretation of the theater philosophy and dramaturgical and acting practice of Teatro Nucleo to the participants in the eighth Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum.
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