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===== ARGENTINE FESTIVAL III/IV =====

July 8-10, Reynolds Theater

//GABRIELA PRADO & EUGENIA ESTÉVEZ://

**Llueve (It Rains)**

//EDGARDO MERCADO://

**Plano Difuso (Diffuse Plane)**

//SUSANA TAMBUTTI://

**The Stab**

On the night of a summer thunderstorm, two women and a man stay 
up late, moving through the implications of their shared 
relationships as they move through the ramshackle rooms of their 
time together.

Llueve (It Rains), Prado and Estévez' hour-long play, conveys 
one of the strongest senses of place in all the works we 
previewed. It also contains moments that shock, in a pensive 
work that may raise some of the summer's most pointed questions 
about relationships—provided its many pauses don't get too 
pregnant.

In the second, separately ticketed concert, Mercado plays in the 
digital sandbox in Plano Difuso (Diffuse Plane), amusing himself 
and us as he explores the relationship between performer and 
digitized setting—sometimes not dissimilarly to Amy Yoes and 
Mark Haim's technochoreographic fusion last summer, Guide to 
Southern Trees. After that, Grupo Krapp's Luciana Acuña restages 
Susana Tambutti's The Stab. This campy, comic burlesque of 
gender roles on film recalls the Patti Smith quote "Every woman/ 
is evasive"—that is, when it isn't apparently taking notes from 
a lower-brow ditty by Robyn Hitchcock. The Stab's manic physical 
energy, penchant for quick-change and mileage on props alone 
recalls—of all things—Jim Carrey in The Mask.

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