American Theatre Magazine
5/2010
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"A vivid example of the quixotic perseverence integral to making collaborations possible"
El Nuevo Herald
3/17/2010
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"Stupendous music soundtrack"
Miami Herald
3/12/2010
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"U.S.-Cuba production succeeds beautifully"
Knight Foundation
3/11/2010
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"Technology is rewriting the map of geography and politics..."
El Nuevo Herald
3/12/2010
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"earns all the possibilities that film and theatre offer to narrate a romance separated by the impossibility of travel."
El Mundo (Spain)
1/20/2010
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"The first and only production to be written, produced, and performed by artists from both countries..."
cubaencuentro.com
3/9/2010
"In this play Cubans and Americans are separated not only by politics and geography, but also by artforms: theatre and video. They belong to opposite worlds in all ways imaginable, including an aesthetic level, as they fight to dodge the abyss that separates them."
Miami Herald
3/9/2010
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"The piece literally embodies the separation between the two countries..."
Miami Art Guide
3/2010
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"The piece incorporates multichannel video installations projected against live performers as a spatial metaphor for bridging the two opposite worlds... an abstract land where Cuban and Americans coexist." |
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Miami New Times
2/25/2010
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"Makes the paradox of distance visible..."
American Theatre Magazine
2/2010
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"a groundbreaking hybrid work of film and theatre... incorporating a beautiful, nearly holographic interaction between Cuban actors on film and American actors on stage..."
LA Weekly
1/20/2010
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"using new technology to overcome the draconian limits imposed by the continuing political disagreements between our two countries..."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
12/20/2009
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"Mesmerizing..."
CubaNow
12/15/2009
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“The play, is the first to be written, produced and interpreted jointly by creators from the two nations. It defies the barriers existing on both sides of the Florida Strait, to establish by way of culture, links of cooperation and exchange between the two nations.”
Granma
12/11/2009
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“There is no doubt that The Closest Farthest Away is a stimulating piece of understanding through art, an open bridge, and a revolution on the impending need to leave behind our
prejudices...”
Minnpost.com
12/7/2009
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"Closest Farthest Away strikes a deep chord in Havana..."
Teresa Eyring's Travel Blog
12/2/2009 - 12/9/2009
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“This kind of artistic collaboration is what will build bridges between the people of Cuba and the US. It exemplifies what can happen when sheer tenacity and vision and guts are combined...” |
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Havana Film Festival Newspaper
12/4/2009
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“The work speaks of love, freedom, and liberty while cinema and theater break the barriers that
impede communication between human beings...”
Miami Herald
12/4/2009
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"A groundbreaking multimedia theater performance created in an unprecedented collaboration between U.S. and Cuban artists... The complex story of an American man in love with a Cuban woman, The Closest Farthest Away breaks ground artistically, politically and technologically."
University of Miami
10/10/2009
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"The Closest Farthest Away manages to make beauty out of an agonizingly long standing impasse in foreign relations between Cuba and the United States and suggests that solutions to that impasse are in our reach just as long as we know what to wish for..."
Stage Whispers (Center Theatre Group)
9/2009
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"The Closest Farthest Away is an act of high artistic, cultural, and political risk-taking filled with fascinating challenges that are usually not part of the art-making process..."
NBC 6 Miami
5/14/2009
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"Using modern means to break down decades old barriers..."
Telemundo
4/7/2009
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"Innovative and revolutionary" |