A performance ‘alla Dario Fo’ with an anti-prologue, prologue and a collection of characters that take us to the tragic bottom that must exist in all comedy.

A fiery comedy rooted in the spirit of Lorca´s Tragedies, as current as our popular tradition: “a theatre for and with the people”.

Created and performed by
Carlos Garcia Estevez
Founder and Artistic Director Manifesto Poetico

Masks
by Den Durand and Donato Sartori

About the artist

Carlos García Estévez is an international artist born in Spain. He is Artistic Director of Manifesto Poetico, an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.

Manifesto Poetico comes from Carlos’ 25 years of research and productions done internationally. He has also performed and directed in over 20 different countries and over 45 different Universities. Over his career he has developed his research into multi-style mis-en-scene, inter- disciplinary productions and devised theatre that is contemporary. The success of his work and the enthusiastic response from the audience comes from a reinvention of traditional- popular theatre. As he learned from Dario Fo, Carlos keeps the spirit of popular theatre in order to create new contemporary theatrical languages that speak to audiences today.

He is currently touring his solo performance Solo dell’Arte. It has been in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Argentina, Romania, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Cyprus, Greece, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.

Other artists with whom he worked include Donato Sartori, Yoshi Oida, Dario Fo, Simon McBurney, Peter Sellars, Marcello Magni, Gennadi Bogdanov, Pierre Byland, Eric de Bont, Kevin Crawford and Kaya Anderson (Roy Hart – Voice technique), Mario Gonzáles (Theatre de Soleil), José Luís Gómez (Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid), Tapa Sudana (Tribuana master and a former actor of Peter Brook’s company) and Miquel A. Barceló.

He trained with Jacques Lecoq for three years, both at his École Internationale de Théâtre and at L.E.M. (Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement). He is regularly hosted as a teacher at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris in the Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.) where he is an associate artist and co-contributor to the unique research undertaken there.

Carlos directs, performs and teaches in English, French, Italian and Spanish.