Spanish writer, stage director and actress
Angélica Liddell is the pseudonym of Angélica González (Figueres, 1966), she started her artistic career in the 1980s as playwright. Her work includes prose, poetry, installations and theatre plays. After completing studies of Psychology and Drama, in 1993 she founded the company Atra Bilis in the context of Madrid’s Royal School of Drama. With this company she staged her own texts, thus starting in direction, scenography and acting.
Her works have been translated into several languages such as French, English, Russian, German, Portuguese and Polish. She has received many recognitions such as Premio Dramaturgia Innovadora Casa América, 2013, for her work Nubila Wahlheim; Premio SGAE de Teatro, 2004, for Mi relación con la comida; Premio Ojo Crítico Segundo Milenio, 2005, recognising her career; Premio Notodo del Público al Mejor Espectáculo, 2007, for Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes; Premios Valle Inclán de Teatro, 2007, for El año de Ricardo; runner-up prize at Premio Lope de Vega, 2007, for Belgrado; Premio Sebatiá Gasch de Artes Parateatrales, 2011. Moreover, she has received the National Prize for Dramatic Literature 2012, for La casa de la fuerza; and the Venice Bienale 2013 Silver Lyon, «recognising her ability to turn poetry into a text that shakes the world ».
Angélica Liddell will work at LABoral on her last project, a research inspired by the American poet Emily Dickinson
During her production residency at LABorals, sound LAB, the Spanish writer, stage director and actress Angélica Liddell will work on her last project, co-produced by Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón and La Bâtie-Festival in Geneva.
Angélica Liddell will shape during her stay at LABoral her last research, inspired by Emily Dickinson, a nineteenth century American poet that spent a good part of her live confined in a room in her father’s place in Amherst and whose huge work was not published until 1955, many years after her death. In fact, only five of her poems were published, three of them without her signature and another one without her knowing.
Starting from one of the most often repeated words in Dickinson’s verses, bee, the Spanish playwright approaches this work with the purpose of “giving a voice to the chaos that built a poetic: The buzz of bees, the chants of Massachussets native Americans, the noise and the fury of Shakespeare and some poems that Dickinson would read backwards, her own poems”.
At LABoral, Angélica Liddell will prepare the production of the piece Esta breve tragedia de la carne that will premiere at La Bâtie-Festival in Geneva, a competition that each year shows during 16 days the latest trends in contemporary stage arts in several venues of Geneva and other neighbouring towns, such as Nyon and Lausanne. The 39th La Bâtie festival will take place from August 28 to September 12, 2015. The result of the sound research is called Emily and will be subsequently shown at the Sound LAB of the Art Centre.
Direction and staging: Angélica Liddell
Production and logistics assistant: Julio Provencio
Installation: Enrique Marty
Sound: Antonio Navarro with Angélica Liddell
Responsible for production and dissemination: Atra Bilis Teatro/ Iaquinandi, S.L. Mamen Adeva and Gumersindo Puche
Responsible for the programme of the Sound LAB: Daniel Romero
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