EEUU: CHICAGO theater:;SHELLEY by Angelina Llongueras

     “THE MASK OF ANARCHY”

                SHELLEY             

PRESENTED BY CATALAN ACTOR AND POET

ANGELINA LLONGUERAS

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 1:00-2:30PM

DE PAUL UNIVERSITY

SCHMITT ACADEMIC CENTER/SAC 161

2320 N. KENMORE AVE.,CHICAGO, IL.

free and open to the public

Hello and Peace to you all:

The Performance Event "The Mask of Anarchy" is free and open to the public. It is geared to the discussion of non violent resistance of  PAX 212, Social Justice Course. Please distribute widely.

This is a bit of information about the poem:

 MASK OF ANARCHY, SHELLEY: Written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by the British Government at St Peter's Field, Manchester 1819, Shelley begins his poem with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time "God, and King, and Law" – and he then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: "Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free". The crowd at this gathering is met by armed soldiers, but the protestors do not raise an arm against their assailants.

Shelley elaborates on the psychological consequences of violence met with pacifism. The guilty soldiers he says, will return shamefully to society, where "blood thus shed will speak/In hot blushes on their cheek". Women will point out the murderers on the streets, their former friends will shun them, and honourable soldiers will turn away from those responsible for the massacre, "ashamed of such base company". A version was taken up by Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha. Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action. It is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's Masque of Anarchy to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India.

ANGELINA LLONGUERAS, PhD,  -  is an actress, playwright,director, professor and researcher born in Barcelona and relocated to Chicago. Among her credits, a tour of Europe and Asia as lead actress in “Metamorfosis” by La Fura dels Baus.  Her one womans show “Phoolan is Everyone” participated in the  Bogotá and Cali Women’s Theatre Festival in 2010, and in 2012 in the International Women Playwright’s conference in Stockholm, Sweden, besides having been performed in New York, Chicago, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid, Ecuador, San Francisco, Berkeley and others.  Angelina was cast  last year in Her Story Theatre's production of "Shadow Town" and recently in "Still Small Voices" by  the Chicago Dance Theatre Company. She coordinated the Chicago events for the World Poetry Movement and the Woman's Shout International Festival, and  has taught courses and seminars in universities in US, Mexico, France and Spain.

JIWON CHUNG

Jiwon Chung directed the first stagings of this stage adaptation of Shelley's poem. He is the artistic director of Kairos Theater Ensemble and adjunct professor at the Starr King School at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, where he teaches Theater and Social Justice. The focus of his work is in the application of theater as a tool for social and political change, using TO to challenge, resist and transform systemic oppression and structural violence, and to redress large scale historical atrocity and global injustice. He also works locally on the creation of wrap-around behavioral health care systems for underserved immigrant communities and refugee micro populations in the bay area. His approach to individual, interpersonal and institutional change is informed by his background as a veteran, martial artist and 3 decades of vipassana meditation.

LES DESEO UN PUBLICO EXCELENTE. ABRAZOS! Marta