I-Fest 2006: Tamara Plashenko, Ukraine
Chopin Productions

I-Fest 2006 is the second annual festival of international solo performances celebrating individuality.

The Mirror and the Masks The play Mirrors and Masks is based on three stories by Jorge Luis Borges. The play is a portrayal of the actor qua actor. The actor puts on a mask or a costume, speaks words that are not his own, and by these means becomes other people. This lasts a long time, until the joy of shifting identity is transformed into a longing for one's own self.


11/2/06 - 11/12/06

Various


The Mirror and the Masks – Jorge Luis Borges - The play Mirrors and Masks is based on three stories by Jorge Luis Borges. The play is a portrayal of the actor qua actor. The actor puts on a mask or a costume, speaks words that are not his own, and by these means becomes other people. This lasts a long time, until the joy of shifting identity is transformed into a longing for one's own self.

Tamara Plashenko, Actor - Ms. Plashenko was born in 1955 in Kiev. She trained at the Karpenko-Kary Institute for the Art of the Theatre, Kiev. Between 1977-9 she worked at the Maria Zan'kovets'ka Ukrainian Drama Theatre, L'viv, and since 1979 has been an actor at the Theatre on the Podil with a series of major parts, including "Alma, 'Summer and Smoke' T Williams; Nastasja Fillipovna 'Idiot', F.Dostoevsky; Ippolita-Titanija 'Midsummer Night Dream', Shakespeare; Actor 'The Mirror and the Mask', J,-L, Borges. Last premiere is 'Maria Callas, Master-class', Terrence McNally". An actor of a delicate inner organization and bright individuality, Ms. Plashenko was twice a recipient of the Kievs'ka Pectoral' award (1993 and 1995). She has performed in many international festivals, including Edinburgh and Torun.

Jorge Luis Borges, Author - Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires , Argentina in 1899 and is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century . Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays , Borges was also a poet , critic , translator and man of letters. In 1961 he received the Formentor Prize , which he shared with Samuel Beckett . He passed away in Switzerland in 1986.

Alexander Kryzhanovsky, Director - Alexander Kryzhanivsky is the art director of New Drama Theatre on Pechersk, Kyiv (1999-2006). He has trained under Anatoly Vasiljev of the Moscow School of Drama Art.

Author
Jorge Luis Borges

Director
Alexander Kryzhanovsky

Performers
Tamara Plashenko

Production
Chopin Productions

Tags: Festival, New Europe, 2006