SEASON 22 | March 2010
Texas Performance Labs Presents
Zero Libertad
Performed and written by Alana Macias and directed by Heather Barfield
Mar.20-21 (Sat-Sun) and Mar.25-28 (Thurs-Sun), 2010 8pm
Texas Performance Labs proudly presents Zero Libertad, a guerilla-pop
spectacle that channels war-survivor Zero Libertad’s life while
entangled in the Contra Conflict of Nicaragua. Performed and written
by Alana Macias and directed by Heather Barfield. Macias portrays
Zero Libertad, performing betwixt and between the living and the dead,
integrated with music, film, visual and live art, high and low culture,
pain and pleasure, glam and slam. Audiences will be bombarded with
velocity and stimuli in order to experience on a visceral level how
the Contra War of Nicaragua was experienced by one broken spirit.
Zero Libertad combines electronic beats, found sound, film treated with animation techniques, a live 60’s-style girl group, gestural language, and cultural intersections from 1980’s & 90’s Miami. This explosive piece aims to strangle you with a velvet glove. Zero Libertad wants you but she may kill you instead.
Co-starring the illustrious Yvonne Oaks, Katherine Craft, Sermini, with live DJ accompaniment by Zach Landreneau, and animation by Adam Flemming. Costumes designed by Heather Koslov. Photographic images by Michael Pugliese. Texas Performance Labs is Alana Macias, Heather Barfield and Martha Lynn Coon.
Alana Macias is a founding company member of Texas Performance Labs. Alana holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from CalArts in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been produced by the Theater Key West New Plays Festival, the Ford Amphitheater Latino Playreading Series, Ground Zero Theater Company, and Kitchen Dog Theater. She was a Finalist for the 2007 Sundance Screenwriters' Lab, the 2007 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center, and the Public Theater's 2007-2008 Emerging Writers Program.
Heather Barfield has been an active player in Austin performance for nearly two decades. She is currently a doctoral student in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin, with an emphasis on feminist performance art and post-modern shamanism.
This project is funded in part by the City of Austin
through the Cultural Arts Division.
Produced with the support of VORTEX Repertory Company.
