02 (English): Léo written by Rosa Labordé, Part 2

Welcome to Radio Aluna Theatre! Join us for the second episode of Léo by Rosa Labordé (part 2 of 3). New episodes are released every Saturday. 

About the play:

Leo is a one-act play told from the perspective of a twenty-year-old pleasure centered man who has become a desaparecido (disappeared) in the Chilean military coup d’etat of 1973. Leo takes us on a journey through childhood, first friends, first loves and an abruptly ended adolescence.

This is second part of our presentation of Leo, by Rosa Labordé.

The story so far:

Leo, Isolda and Rodrigo are childhood friends. Leo is a young poet. He says his father disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. He lives with his blind mother. Rodrigo is passionate about politics, and very involved in the social process the country is going through. Isolda is very good at stealing. She and Rodrigo are a couple. As the three friends become teenagers, they don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.

Wonder what these wonderful actors look like? You are in luck! See them performing onstage as this podcast goes out:  

Augusto Bitter is an ashamed-queer-Catholic-man-boy from Venezuela in his own piece, CHICHO, and follow Arlen Aguayo-Stewart and Carlos González-Vío as they join a powerful ensemble in Human Animals.

 

Credits:

Augusto Bitter as Leo,

Arlen Aguayo-Stewart as Isolda

Carlos Gonzalez-Vio as Rodrigo

Francesca Zentilli as Leo’s Mother. 

Direction by Carlos Diaz
Original sound Design by Thomas Ryder-Payne
New music by Marcelo Puente
Production, editing, and additional sound design by Charles Ketchabaw and Aidan McMahon
Translation and Script co-ordination by Bruce Gibbons Fell

Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Metcalf Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, The City of Toronto, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Laidlaw Foundation, and Playwrights Workshop Montreal’s Glassco translation residency in Tadoussac.

Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint & Gia Nahmens; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Camila Diaz-Varela and Monica Garrido.

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Poster art for Léo by Kilby Smith-McGregor.