Excerpts From the Plays of Vivi Tellas

For the past five years or so all of my work has revolved around a single idea: to search for theatricality outside the theatre. I did four plays that I prefer to call “archives:” My Mom and My Aunt (2003), Three Mustached Philosophers (2004), Cozarinsky and His Doctor (2005), and Driving School (2006). In all of them I’ve worked with regular people and the real worlds to which they belong. The protagonists of My Mother and My Aunt were my actual mother and aunt, and certain myths and rituals from my own family history; in Three Mustached Philosophers I chose three philosophy professors from the university to expound on the connection between thought and personal life; in Cozarinsky and His Doctor I worked with the Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky and his physician, Alejo Florín, who’d saved his life by detecting a serious illness in time; in Driving School , the last archive up to now, I deal with the relationship between cars and people, with two instructors from the main driving school in Buenos Aires and the only employee in the entire school, a woman, who doesn’t know how to drive. Alfredo Tzveibel, Leonardo Sacco, and Eduardo Osswald in Three Philosophers by Vivi Tellas (Photo by Nicholas Goldberg) Alfredo Tzveibel, Leonardo Sacco, and Eduardo Osswald in Three Philosophers by Vivi Tellas (Photo by Nicholas Goldberg) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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