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HUMAN IDENTITY
Performer and writer Christopher Vened brings his one-man show Human Identity to the Whitefire Theatre on September 14 at 7pm.
What does it mean to be human? Who am I? Christopher Vened explores the essential human predicament of being alive without entirely knowing who we are and how we were created. He relentlessly pursues answers and what he cannot explain in words, he shows in mime. "Vened's skill as a mime enables him to intricately reveal the complex physical organization that makes us human and how it transcends all other life forms on Earth," praised reviewer Julio Martinez in Arts in LA.
Christopher Vened embraces the formula of monodrama theatre because it invites freedom of individual expression with no limits. To stand alone on front of the audience and express oneself is something liberating, there is no other authority but "I." Well, it is, of course, easy to make a fool of one-self. So, one better have a good script, staging, and rehearsed it well to deserve to be there, on the stage. The audience is hungry for revelations, or at least entertainment. The performer has to deliver it. And that requires skills, talent, and to have something to say and/or show, a message they are awaiting for. Christopher Vened is aware of this
responsibility. In his one-man show Human Identity he hopes to stir people's minds, he wants the audience to get excited by the ideas in the show, to take those ideas home with them and discuss them, talk about them for many days to come, so to speak, to go on their own quest for human identity.
Christopher Vened was born in 1952 in Poland. He was an actor-mime in the Wroclaw Pantomime Theatre. In 1977, he was awarded the Brown Spire for the best performance for the dual role of Guest-Dionysus in the production of Arriving Tomorrow. In the end of 1981, he defected to the West while on tour with the company in Germany because martial law was declared in Poland. He was the founder and director of Impulse-Movement Theatre in West Berlin and Drama Studio in Seattle. In 1985, he was awarded a Drama-Logue Award for best choreography for his work in the production of A Voyage to Arcturus at the Odyssey Theater. He has choreographed and directed shows and taught acting in various studios, universities, and theaters in the United States. He is the author of the acting book In Character: An Actor's Workbook for Character Development.
"Then he begins to move, literally using his body as a flesh-and-blood power-point presentation. Over the course of 90 minutes, this graceful and insightful performer gives ample evidence that physical movement is worth more than a thousand words."
--Julio Martinez Arts in LA
"A true master of his own body, a genius of physical expression and articulation, Christopher Vened, in this one man masterpiece, displays exquisite human agility."
--Bonnie Priever, Examiner.com
Critic's Pick of the Week, January 13, Arts in LA
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LocationThe Whitefire Theatre (View)
13500 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
United States
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