La Casa Azul: Inspired by the writings of Frida Kahlo

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'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The life is one of struggle - with love, with the body, with her country, and most of all, with her art. La Casa Azul is a collaboration between Quebeois playwright Sophie Faucher, who also played Frida Kahlo in this production, and internationally acclaimed director Robert Lepage.

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I took my fears and turned them into paintings * La Casa Azul. *

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Sophie Faucher graduated from Montreal's Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique and immediately began working in theatre, cinema, television and radio. She has performed in more than thirty productions. La Casa Azul is her first stage play. Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre, and charcteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens, most of them originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London, have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.