Ep. 1: Leo by Rosa Laborde, Part 1
February 16, 2019
Welcome to the first episode of Radio Aluna Theatre! Join us for Part 1 of Léo by Rosa Labordé. New episodes are released every Saturday.
About Leo:
Political passion, poetry, sexual identity, and what it means to “disappear” – including the loss of ideals and individual spirit – weave a bittersweet triangle in this tale of stolen youth. Set in Santiago, Chile, Leo, is a one-act play told from the perspective of a twenty-year-old pleasure centered man who has become a desaparecido (disappeared) after the democratically elected Chilean government is overthrown with the assassination of the president, Salvador Allende, in the military coup d’etat of 1973. Leo takes us on a journey through childhood, first friends, first loves and an abruptly ended adolescence.
Credits:
Augusto Bitter as Leo
Arlen Aguayo-Stewart as Isolda
Carlos Gonzalez-Vio as Rodrigo
and 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, photo Cylla von Tiedemann.