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May 2012

Tuesday May 1, 2012

Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box at The Cultch

Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written fourteen plays. Currently she is working on a one-woman show called Blue Box, commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre in Toronto. She is also writing her memoir, Something Fierce, about her militancy in the Chilean resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship. As an actor, Aguirre has thirty film and TV credits, including a lead role in the independent feature Quinceañera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, an Independent Spirit award, GLAAD awards and various People’s Choice awards at festivals around the world. As a stage actor, Aguirre has worked with a host of acclaimed Vancouver theatre companies. Aguirre was the founder and director of The Latino Theatre Group, was playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse from 2000 to 2002, was playwright-in-residence at Touchstone Theatre in 2004, and facilitates Theatre of the Oppressed workshops around the province.

January 2012 : Promo Video for Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box

November 2011 : Carmen Aguirre Tours Blue Box in 2012

September 2011 : Word on the Street Vancouver, 2011

June 2011 : Carmen Aguirre at the Toronto Women's Bookstore

May 2011 : Carmen Aguirre on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer, Part 1

September 2010 : Mapping the Rainy City on a Sunday

September 2010 : Making the Refugee Hotel

September 2010 : Carmen Aguirre Tells a Local Tale at Vancouver Word on the Street

August 2010 : Dramas Illumine Dark Matter

June 2010 : Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2005 Jessie Richardson Award for Innovation Award (Touchstone Theatre)

QUOTES OF NOTE

“A humorous and heartbreaking look at life in exile.”
— Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles

QUOTES OF NOTE

“ The Trigger is a knockout … intelligent, powerful, funny, horrific, theatrically stunning, and utterly free of victimology.”

— Jerry Wasserman

“The writing is at its most revealing when Aguirre shows us how­ the young Carmen’s mind struggles to process adult-scale horror…Going into an evening like this, you might expect sentimentalization of pain or oversimplification of politics … what The Trigger offers is so strange that it has the ring of truth, and it is never simplistic. Often, though, it is beautiful.”

— Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight