Background
Verdecchia, Guillermo Luis was born on December 7, 1962 in Buenos Aires. Arrived in Canada, 1969.
( ’Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to rev...)
’Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to reveal truths; The Noam Chomsky Lectures relies on truths in order to reveal illusions. Following the impetus of Chomsky himself, Brooks and Verdecchia have recognized that mass media, mass spectacle, have trivialized and severed consciousness and conscience, separating both from a communal base. We collectively know little about what is done in our name by our elected governments and the business interests they serve. The Noam Chomsky Lectures assumes not only that we do want to know, that our knowing together’ may change things, but also that it is less painful to know than to not know.’ - Joyce Nelson in her introduction to The Noam Chomsky Lectures
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( In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, t...)
In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian basean act to which the Canadian soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant. Weaving poetic drama with myriad documentary sources, A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada’s long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats. It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us. Cast of three to five men.
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( Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, F...)
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; La Bamba’ and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-wars movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. Cast of one man.
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Verdecchia, Guillermo Luis was born on December 7, 1962 in Buenos Aires. Arrived in Canada, 1969.
He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto, and a Master"s Degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. His work engages questions of representation, political power, and cultural theory.
Verdecchia is a sessional instructor at Algoma University and has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Guelph, and at Ca" Foscari in Venice.
In 2007 he was the 2007 Hayes-Jenkinson Memorial lecturer at Algoma University. He has also published a collection of short stories, Citizen Suarez in 1998.
( Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, ...)
( Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, F...)
( In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, t...)
( ’Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to rev...)
(drama, one-person play by Argentinian/Canadian)
(a play, based on Chomsky's political writings)
Married Tamsin Kelsey. Children: Anais Kelsey-Verdecchia, Theo Kelsey-Verdecchia.