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In the text by Euripides, the Greeks enslave Hecuba, who has lost almost all of her children in the Trojan War. In the festivals to honor the death of Achilles, the sacrifice of Polyxena, one of her children, is demanded, over the warrior\u2019s tomb. Hecuba begs Odysseus to take her daughter\u2019s place, but he refuses. While she laments the death of her daughter, she finds the lifeless body of her son Polydorus, killed by the King of Thrace, and swears vengeance on the spot.<\/p>\n
In the original text, what follows is the story of how this mother succeeds in killing the sovereign and his children, putting a cunning plan into effect. However, in this adaptation Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi takes dramatic license to make a major change to the story: the vengeful Hecuba becomes a Fury Mother, who refuses to resign herself to the plans of destiny. Knowing that she is powerless to shift the atrocious future that lies in store, she chooses to kill her own children instead, and then kill off the men who would have been their murderers.<\/p>\n
Wehbi compounds two mythical women, Hecuba and Medea into one protagonist who breaks the moral precepts that society imposes – the preservation of the species \u2013 to become a she-dog. All of the cultural and moral differences that set her apart from the animal have disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDIRECTOR<\/span>\n
Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dramatic idioms. Since founding El Perif\u00e9rico de Objetos in 1989, he has won renown as a theater director,\u00a0r\u00e9gisseur<\/em>, performer, actor, visual artist, and teacher. His shows, operas, performances, installations and urban interventions have been presented at leading venues, festivals, and cities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, the USA, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Australia, and Japan.<\/p>\nHis poetic style seeks to confront the established categories of aesthetics, hybridizing disciplines to create an idiom that does not fit within any definition. His formal search seeks always to establish a dialogue with the spectator, seeing the audience as an active part of the work. He starts from formal strategies that include concepts such as the obscene (that which is beyond the scene), crisis, accident, provocation, instability, the extraordinary (that which is beyond order), memory, death, and violence. Through his works he seeks to form a space where different perspectives come together.<\/p>\n
His main works are:\u00a0Agamen\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/em>Volv\u00ed del supermercado y le di una paliza a mi hijo, Prefiero que me quite el sue\u00f1o Goya a que lo haga cualquier hijo de puta, H\u00e9cuba o el Gineceo canino, El (A)parecido, Aura, Dr. Faustus, Chacales y \u00c1rabes, El Matadero. Un Comentario, Heldenplatz, Dolor Exquisito, Jakob von Gunten, Moby Dick, oder Der Weisse Wal, Woyzeck; Bambiland, La Balsa de la Medusa, El Matadero<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Serie VI, V, IV, III, II, I),\u00a0Lucha Libre, Proyecto Filoctetes<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Krakow),\u00a0Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Anna O., Moby Dick, Los Murmullos, Sin Voces y Cuerpos Viles: Museo de la Morgue Judicial;<\/em>\u00a0as a director they include El Perif\u00e9rico de Objetos:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Manifiesto de Ni\u00f1os, La \u00daltima Noche de la Humanidad, Monteverdi M\u00e9todo B\u00e9lico, Zooedipous, M\u00e1quina Hamlet, C\u00e1mara Gesell, El Hombre de Arena\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ub\u00fa Rey.<\/em><\/p>\nAs a teacher, he has given classes as part of the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship for Dance and Performance at Freie Universit\u00e4t, Berlin, Germany; at the Masters in Theater and the Performance Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot\u00e1; and at the Institut fur Theaterwiessenschaft, Ludwig Maximilian Universit\u00e4t, Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCOMPANY<\/span>\n
Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi began to develop his artistic style in 1989 when he founded one of Argentina\u2019s most prestigious theater groups, El Perif\u00e9rico de Objetos, which has presented works at most theater festivals produced in Europe and the Americas. In 1999, actress and choreographer Maricel \u00c1lvarez joined forces with Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi, beginning a partnership that has lasted over 14 years and seen the joint creation of works that do not recognize any limits in artistic practice.<\/p>\n
Their activities have straddled the transition between theater, dance, opera, performance art, installation, urban interventions, and teaching. Their aesthetic seeks to break down the limits between different artistic genres and expand the concepts of performance, thus creating fascinating hybrid formats that carry the air of methods that are not part of any canon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nPRESS<\/span>\n
\u00abA partir del mito de Eur\u00edp\u00eddes, Garcia Wehbi -tambi\u00e9n director e int\u00e9rprete- cre\u00f3 un texto torrencial, duramente perturbador, de una riqueza de lenguaje, de ideas y de referencias, francamente apabullante. Maricel \u00c1lvarez, majestuosa, soberbia, provocadora, es una H\u00e9cuba inolvidable\u00bb. Moira Soto. Pan y Teatro.<\/p>\n
\u00abH\u00e9cuba o el gineceo canino<\/em>\u00a0arroja a escena una reflexi\u00f3n desesperanzada sobre la condici\u00f3n humana, atada a un Destino prefijado por lo imponderable (\u2026) Vale como valor sustantivo, el furor l\u00facido que brilla en la s\u00f3lida presencia disuasiva de Maricel \u00c1lvarez como una potente mixtura de H\u00e9cuba, Medea y Cronos; para rendir una labor tan sorprendente como agotadora\u00bb. Luis Mazas. Revista Veintitr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\u00abEn un trabajo de dramaturgia muy impresionante, Garc\u00eda Wehbi cruza H\u00e9cuba con Medea, creando una \u201cmadre-furia\u201d que mata ella misma a su descendencia antes de que se la maten otros. As\u00ed, en una puesta con una impronta est\u00e9tica avasallante caracter\u00edstica del director, H\u00e9cuba o el gineceo canino habla del dolor, el sometimiento, y las posibilidades humanas frente a la tragedia\u00bb. Agustina Mu\u00f1oz. Radar, P\u00e1gina 12. 25 de septiembre de 2011.<\/p>\n
\u00abSi hacer los cl\u00e1sicos es tomar los textos cl\u00e1sicos de la dramaturgia, nos olvidamos o negamos lo que ha crecido el teatro en las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas. Por eso destaco el trabajo de Garc\u00eda Wehbi que reconstruye a Eur\u00edpides, crea un texto con la escena, provoca al espectador y lo lleva a construir su propia obra con las im\u00e1genes que percibe, se pone fuertemente pol\u00edtico y fuertemente teatral\u00bb. Julia Elena Sagaseta. Territorio Teatral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCREDITS<\/span>\n
Cast\u00a0Marciel \u00c1lvarez, Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi and Horacio Marassi<\/strong><\/p>\nProduction\u00a0Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Instituto Nacional de Teatro<\/strong><\/p>\nGraphic design\u00a0Leandro Ibarra<\/strong><\/p>\nChoreography\u00a0Marina Sarmiento<\/strong><\/p>\nVideo and images\u00a0Santiago Brunati<\/strong><\/p>\nMusic and soundtrack\u00a0Marcelo Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><\/p>\nLightning\u00a0Alejando Le Roux<\/strong><\/p>\nExecutive production, direction assistant and scenography\u00a0Julieta Potenze<\/strong><\/p>\nGeneral concept, staging and direction\u00a0Emilio Garc\u00eda Wehbi<\/strong><\/p>\nAdapted fragments of the following are used: movies\u00a0El Infierno\u00a0<\/em>(1911) by Giuseppe de Liguoro, and\u00a0Felicidad\u00a0<\/em>(1934) by Aleksandr Medvedkin;\u00a0<\/strong>reframed photographs by\u00a0Jill Greenberg (End Times\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Monkey portraits\u00a0<\/em>series);\u00a0<\/strong>and a version of the song\u00a0King of Dogs<\/em>, by Iggy Pop<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nPremiere\u00a0October 2011, Buenos Aires<\/strong><\/p>\nLength\u00a01 hour<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"En el texto de Eur\u00edpides, los griegos convierten a H\u00e9cuba \u2013que ha perdido a casi todos sus hijos en la guerra de Troya\u2013 en esclava. En las fiestas para honrar la muerte de Aquiles, se exige el sacrificio de Pol\u00edxena, una de las hijas de H\u00e9cuba, sobre la tumba del guerrero.In the text by Euripides, the Greeks enslave Hecuba, who has lost almost all of her children in the Trojan War. In the festivals to honor the death of Achilles, the sacrifice of Polyxena, one of her children, is demanded, over the warrior\u2019s tomb.