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Andrés won’t come out until his novel is finished. Gloria won’t give up until Andrés fully loves her. Odiseo then arrives on a mission to change all that. Facing their greatest fear may be the only way out. Muerte Súbita (Sudden Death) is a tour de force by Mexico’s leading playwright Sabina Berman.
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DANIEL JÁQUEZ (Director)
Director and producer of shows Off and Off-Off Broadway and at renowned concert venues such as Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall. Regionally, he has directed across the United States and has also worked in Russia, Switzerland, France and Mexico. Read More
ALFREDO HUERECA (Andrés)
Alfredo Huereca’s acting career began in Mexico, performing in classical and contemporary plays. It is during this time that he performed at the internationally known Festival Cervantino in the lead role of Lope de Vega’s The Knight of Olmedo, and was given the Best Actor Award. Read More
ANA GROSSE (Gloria)
Ana Grosse is a trilingual actor, dancer, translator and producer. She was born in Argentina and is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Conservatory in New York. Read More
About Sabina Berman
Sabina Berman is Mexico’s leading playwright and is also a storyteller, essayist, film and theater director. She is recognized as the most prolific, original, and daring playwright of her generation in the Spanish language. Four times prize-winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico (Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia en México) and the Juan Ruiz de Alarcon Award (Premio Juan Ruiz de Alarcón), she has also won twice the National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) (1999 and 2007).
Her best-known plays include the critically-acclaimed Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Moliere, and Freud Skating. They each ran for over two years in Mexico City, and were produced in Latin America, Europe and the United States.
Born in 1955 to Eastern European Jews, Sabina grew up in Mexico City. She studied Mexican literature and psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana and she was trained as a theater person on stage. In 1995, she was co-director of the film Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, with Isabelle Tardan. Recently, she wrote the film The History of Love for Alfonso Cuarón and Light for Alejandro González Iñarritu. She also wrote and co-produced the film Backyard, which represented Mexico at the Oscars 2010.
In her book Sediciosas Seducciones, American critic Jacqueline Bixler writes that Sabina Berman’s work combines sex, power and words. Her work deals mainly with the issue of diversity (human and animal) and its obstacle: the striving for domination, with its derivatives (authoritarianism, violence, and discrimination). In her style some constants stand out: humor and irony, distrust of all official discourse, subversion, the need to go beyond both sexual and theatrical boundaries and the use of language itself.
Currently she is the host of the television show Sha la lá, a weekly TV series of interviews with artists, politicians, scientists and literary figures in Mexico, broadcasting on Televisión Azteca. Her most recent novel Me (La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo – original title) has been published in 11 languages in over 33 countries.
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