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...HAVE A FRIEND named "Frida," a fellowstudent at Harvard. Frida was premed: both of herparents are doctors, and there was more than alittle pressure in her household shoving her downthe golden path to sterile walls and malpracticesuits. She is also a wonderful and versatileartist. About halfway through her time here atHarvard, Frida freaked out and dropped out of thedoctor track. She'd finished all the prerequisitesbut one. The scene was pretty ugly: her fatheractually flew into Boston, got a hotel room, andstarted stalking her professors. I'm not sure whathe was trying to accomplish, but it was prettyscary...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...addition to the experimental pieces, the show includes portaits of Bravo's interesting acquaintances: Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisenstein and Andre Breton. Revelaciones provides a valuable opportunity to see some of Bravo's finest work. His inspired vision offers American audiences a landscape that is new and exceedingly real...
...Frida, produced by the American Music Theater Festival, Houston Grand Opera and Women's Project & Productions, has a promising future ahead of its. Following its Cambridge debut, it is scheduled for a number of other American cities as well as the opening event of the Brooklyn's Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival...