Theatre
Director: Diana Sedano| Performer: Diana Sedano | Co-Directors: Ricardo Rodríguez and Cecilia Ramírez Romo | Scenic Design (Scenery and Lighting): Sergio López Vigueras | Assistant Director: Michelle Betancourt | Production Assistance and Technical Support: Laura Baneco
Diana Sedano
Director
She teaches at Casa Azul ARGOS, La Casa del Teatro, in Mexico City where she graduated, as well as at the Conservatorio de Actuación. Diana Sedano has worked continuously as an actress in theater and film, collaborating with directors such as Martín Acosta, Martín Zapata, David Gaitán, Gervais Gaudreault, Aurora Cano, Ana Francis Mor, Pepe Valle and Miguel Calderón, among others.
In 2009, she was part of the Centro Dramático de Michoacán, Mexico. The following year she joined the stable cast of the Mexican Compañía Nacional de Teatro, where she remained until 2012. She was a grantee of the National Fund for Culture and Arts in 2014 and 2018 with the project Aves.1.0, where the idea to build an artistic collaboration emerged, alongside Co.Relato and Tornaviaje, respectively.
Ricardo Rodríguez
Co-director
Ricardo studied at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and has directed several plays including Goldfish, Tiburón, El Niño que se comió́ la servilleta de su sándwich and DHL, among others.
Beyond Los Bocanegra, the company to which he belongs, he has directed Hikari: una poderosa máquina de velocidad, Abrazar al panda and Hambre vieja. He has also participated as an actor in almost twenty plays with directors such as Alberto Lomnitz, Hugo Arrevillaga, Alejandro Ricaño, David Psalmon, David Hevia, David Olguín, Emanuel Varela and Alonso Íñiguez.
Cecilia Ramírez Romo
Co-director
Cecilia holds a degree in acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has received a scholarship from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico of the Mexican government, as well as a grant from the Programa de Creadores Escénicos of the National Fund for Culture and Arts.
Director of plays such as Homo empathicus, Perderlo todo menos la soledad and LOBATA: Teatro experimental para niñxs revolucionarixs, she is currently a member of the stable cast of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro de México.
Throughout her career she has worked with Mexican directors such as David Hevia, Mario Espinosa, Juan Carlos Vives, Vivian Cruz, Rodrigo Johnson, David Gaitán, Martín Acosta, Carlos Corona, Raquel Araujo, Aurora Cano and Octavio Michel, among others.
Co Relato
The company
Creation and Collaboration
The company was established in 2014 under the call of actress Diana Sedano with the goal to create the piece Aves1.0. This project sought to take the female characters from the plays The Seagull (Anton Chekhov), The Pelican (August Strindberg) and The Wild Duck (Henrik Ibsen), and make them coexist in a new space.
This project’s premiere has become a constant in the work of the company, configuring parallel narratives that cross, alter and accompany the story. This proposal of a narrative universe materializes on the stage through the collaborative work of actresses, directors and designers.
"It is possible to ascribe (the) turnaround (Tornaviaje) in the category of autofiction. This leaves out questions about what is "true" and what is "false", because, it being both concepts at the same time, the border between reality and fiction vanishes, and instead the way to reflections around the scenic confession is opened."
Zavel Castro, Theater Review. Source: Aplaudir de pie
- Because of its narrative proposal that intertwines reality and fiction, taking the spectator to the core of an experience lived by its creator. The latter, as an interpreter, gets under the skin of the characters that make up this story.
- Because of its genuine topic about the return to our roots and the relationship with our father figure. Themes that submerge the spectator in the concept of identity and the question of who we are in relation to others.
-Because of its creator, Diana Sedano, who is an outstanding figure in Mexican theater. With more than ten years of trajectory as an actress and director, Sedano has received a series of recognitions for her work, such as the Mezcal Award for Best Actress at the 2019 Guadalajara International Film Festival for her performance in Yo Necesito Amor.
-Because Tornaviaje received the award for Best Monologue by the theatre reviewers´ association ACPT, Mexico City, 2021.
Bululú: Popular during the sixteenth century, the Bululú was a solitary actor who traveled on foot performing from town to town. His role was personifying all the characters of the story, as well as the sounds and elements. It is believed that this type of performance was inspired by Italian medieval minstrelsy and Renaissance theater.
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Tornaviaje
By Diana Sedano | A production by Co.Relato
- México
- Spanish
- 60 minutes
- + 15 años
Reality and fiction merge in a journey that reflects upon the relationship with our origins.
We all are someone's children. She is the child of a Spanish painter; half of her roots seem to be across the sea. She decided to buy a ticket to Madrid to meet her part of the family, and it was then when her father told her that no one in Spain knew about her.
What is not named, does not exist. She had not been named, but she exists. Full of uncertainties, the woman embarks on a journey to her father's land, trying to navigate in a familiar and, at the same time, completely unknown landscape.
This performance in Bululú style - where a minstrel-like actor embodies different characters - is an encounter between fiction, memory and the desire of a daughter looking for the truth about her father.
Tornaviaje
By Diana Sedano | A production by Co.Relato
- México
- Spanish
- 60 minutes
- + 15 años
Reality and fiction merge in a journey that reflects upon the relationship with our origins.
We all are someone's children. She is the child of a Spanish painter; half of her roots seem to be across the sea. She decided to buy a ticket to Madrid to meet her part of the family, and it was then when her father told her that no one in Spain knew about her.
What is not named, does not exist. She had not been named, but she exists. Full of uncertainties, the woman embarks on a journey to her father's land, trying to navigate in a familiar and, at the same time, completely unknown landscape.
This performance in Bululú style - where a minstrel-like actor embodies different characters - is an encounter between fiction, memory and the desire of a daughter looking for the truth about her father.
Director: Diana Sedano| Performer: Diana Sedano | Co-Directors: Ricardo Rodríguez and Cecilia Ramírez Romo | Scenic Design (Scenery and Lighting): Sergio López Vigueras | Assistant Director: Michelle Betancourt | Production Assistance and Technical Support: Laura Baneco
Diana Sedano
Director
She teaches at Casa Azul ARGOS, La Casa del Teatro, in Mexico City where she graduated, as well as at the Conservatorio de Actuación. Diana Sedano has worked continuously as an actress in theater and film, collaborating with directors such as Martín Acosta, Martín Zapata, David Gaitán, Gervais Gaudreault, Aurora Cano, Ana Francis Mor, Pepe Valle and Miguel Calderón, among others.
In 2009, she was part of the Centro Dramático de Michoacán, Mexico. The following year she joined the stable cast of the Mexican Compañía Nacional de Teatro, where she remained until 2012. She was a grantee of the National Fund for Culture and Arts in 2014 and 2018 with the project Aves.1.0, where the idea to build an artistic collaboration emerged, alongside Co.Relato and Tornaviaje, respectively.
Ricardo Rodríguez
Co-director
Ricardo studied at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and has directed several plays including Goldfish, Tiburón, El Niño que se comió́ la servilleta de su sándwich and DHL, among others.
Beyond Los Bocanegra, the company to which he belongs, he has directed Hikari: una poderosa máquina de velocidad, Abrazar al panda and Hambre vieja. He has also participated as an actor in almost twenty plays with directors such as Alberto Lomnitz, Hugo Arrevillaga, Alejandro Ricaño, David Psalmon, David Hevia, David Olguín, Emanuel Varela and Alonso Íñiguez.
Cecilia Ramírez Romo
Co-director
Cecilia holds a degree in acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has received a scholarship from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico of the Mexican government, as well as a grant from the Programa de Creadores Escénicos of the National Fund for Culture and Arts.
Director of plays such as Homo empathicus, Perderlo todo menos la soledad and LOBATA: Teatro experimental para niñxs revolucionarixs, she is currently a member of the stable cast of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro de México.
Throughout her career she has worked with Mexican directors such as David Hevia, Mario Espinosa, Juan Carlos Vives, Vivian Cruz, Rodrigo Johnson, David Gaitán, Martín Acosta, Carlos Corona, Raquel Araujo, Aurora Cano and Octavio Michel, among others.
Co Relato
The company
Creation and Collaboration
The company was established in 2014 under the call of actress Diana Sedano with the goal to create the piece Aves1.0. This project sought to take the female characters from the plays The Seagull (Anton Chekhov), The Pelican (August Strindberg) and The Wild Duck (Henrik Ibsen), and make them coexist in a new space.
This project’s premiere has become a constant in the work of the company, configuring parallel narratives that cross, alter and accompany the story. This proposal of a narrative universe materializes on the stage through the collaborative work of actresses, directors and designers.
"It is possible to ascribe (the) turnaround (Tornaviaje) in the category of autofiction. This leaves out questions about what is "true" and what is "false", because, it being both concepts at the same time, the border between reality and fiction vanishes, and instead the way to reflections around the scenic confession is opened."
Zavel Castro, Theater Review. Source: Aplaudir de pie
- Because of its narrative proposal that intertwines reality and fiction, taking the spectator to the core of an experience lived by its creator. The latter, as an interpreter, gets under the skin of the characters that make up this story.
- Because of its genuine topic about the return to our roots and the relationship with our father figure. Themes that submerge the spectator in the concept of identity and the question of who we are in relation to others.
-Because of its creator, Diana Sedano, who is an outstanding figure in Mexican theater. With more than ten years of trajectory as an actress and director, Sedano has received a series of recognitions for her work, such as the Mezcal Award for Best Actress at the 2019 Guadalajara International Film Festival for her performance in Yo Necesito Amor.
-Because Tornaviaje received the award for Best Monologue by the theatre reviewers´ association ACPT, Mexico City, 2021.
Bululú: Popular during the sixteenth century, the Bululú was a solitary actor who traveled on foot performing from town to town. His role was personifying all the characters of the story, as well as the sounds and elements. It is believed that this type of performance was inspired by Italian medieval minstrelsy and Renaissance theater.
PRODUCE
COLABORA