María Barcala


Category: Actress
Birth Date: In 1957
Birth Place: Vila de Cruces (Pontevedra)
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She codirects ‘Compañía Teatro do Atlántico’, created in 1985, Culleredo (A Coruña). She has worked with the following theatre companies: ‘Teatro da Mari-Gaila’, ‘Teatro do Noroeste’ and ‘Itaca Teatro’ (Santiago de Compostela), ‘Teatro Guirigai’ (Madrid) and ‘Centro Dramático Galego’ (Santiago de Compostela).

PERFORMANCES:
-2004: ‘O encoro’, by Conor McPherson for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’, playing ‘Valerie’.
-2002-2003: ‘Pervertimento’, by Sanchis Sinisterra for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’, playing ‘Ludovina’, ‘Ecos e voces dun tempo e dun país’, poetry reading organised by several authors for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’ and ‘Vanzetti’, by Luís Araújo for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’ (clothing design and direction assistant).
-2001: ‘Rosalía’, by Otero Pedraio for ‘Centro Dramático Galego’, playing ‘Rosalía’.
-2000: ‘Sólo para Paquita’, by Ernesto Caballero for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’, playing ‘Paquita’.
-1999: ‘O cerco de Leningrado’, by Sanchis Sinisterra for ‘Teatro do Atlántico’, playing ‘Natalia’.
-1998: ‘Vellos tempos’, by Harold Pinter for Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Anna’ and ‘Memoria de Antígona’, by Quico Cadaval and Xabier Lama, for Centro Dramático Galego.
-1997: ‘O bufón do rei’, by Vicente Risco for Centro Dramático Galego, playing ‘Raíña’, ‘O peregrino errante que cansou ó demo’, by Xabier Lama, playing ‘A Chafarisa’ and others and ‘Lisístrata’, ou de cando as mulleres reviraron’, by Aristófanes in a version by Manolo Guede and Eduardo Alonso for Centro Dramático Galego, playing ‘Praxágoras’.
-1996: ‘Como en Irlanda’, by J.M.Synge - A.Vilar Ponte for Centro Dramático Galego.
-1995: ‘Casa de Bonecas’, by Henrik Ibsen for Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Nora’ and ‘Tolos de amor’ (Sam Shepard), Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘May’.
-1994: ‘A fiestra valdeira’, by Rafael Dieste, for Centro Dramático Galego (direction assistant).
-1993: ‘Non se chora’ (Roberto Cossa), Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Lola’.
-1991-92: ‘Ocasos’, about texts by Manuel Lourenzo and Marguerite Yourcenar for Teatro do Atlántico (codirector and actress). In 1992, she was awarded Compostela Prize to the best feminine interpretation playing ‘Clitemnestra’, ‘Rei Lear’ (W.Shakespeare) Teatro do Noroeste, playing ‘Cordelia’ and ‘Gerda’ in poetical reading and dramatization of texts by Álvaro Cunqueiro.
-1990: ‘Historia de Neera’, by Roberto Salgueiro for Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Neera’.
-1989: ‘Liberdade Bremana’, by R.W. Fassbinder for Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Gueeshe’.
-1988: ‘Eu, Gulliver Ferreiro’, by Celso Emilio Ferreiro, poetry reading for Teatro do Atlántico.
-1987: ‘Quartett’ (Heiner Müller) for Teatro do Atlántico, playing ‘Marteuill’.
-1986: ‘A noite vai coma un río’, by Álvaro Cunqueiro for Centro Dramático Galego, playing ‘Dona Inés’ and ‘A marabillosa historia de Marly, a vampira de Vila de Cruces’, by Carlos Queiroz Telles, playing ‘Marly’.
-1985: ‘El enésimo viaje a Eldorado’ by Agustín Iglesias for Colectivo Teatral Guirigai, ‘Una mujer sola’, by Darío Fo for Colectivo Teatral Guirigai and ‘La Bella y la Bestia’, a version of Antonia Bueno for Colectivo Teatral Guirigai.
-1984: ‘Woyzeck’, by G.Büchner for Centro Dramático Galego.
-1983: ‘A noite das Tríbades’, by Per Olov Enquist for Teatro da Mari-Gaila, playing ‘Siri von Hessen Strindberg’.
-1982: ‘Acto cultural’, by J.I.Cabrujas for Teatro da Mari-Gaila, playing ‘Purificación Chocano’.
-1981: ‘Ensaio festivo para unha marcha fúnebre’, by Griselda Gambaro for Teatro da Mari-Gaila (direction assistant).
-1980: ‘O agnus dei dunha nai’, by Dorotea Bárcena for Teatro da Mari-Gaila, playing ‘A filla’.

 Work & Activities

AUDIOVISUAL WORKS:
-1983: ‘Rosalía’; a drama produced by Spanish TV to commemorate the centenary of Rosalía de Castro and ‘Divinas Palabras’, a film directed by García Sánchez.
-1988: ‘Café Bremen’, a film directed by Antonio Francisco Simón for Corazón Negro and CORAZÓN NEGRO and ‘Aire Fresco’, a drama produced by Manolo Abad for Galician TV (script and direction: Euloxio Ruibal).
-1989: ‘Un café de ollos verdes’, a medium-length film directed by Antonio Francisco Simón (script: Lino Braxe).
-2000-2001: ‘Rías Baixas’; she plays ‘Isabel Losada’ in this TV serial directed by Jesús Segura for ZENIT MULTIMEDIA.
-2004: ‘As leis de Celavella’, a TV serial produced by VIDEO VOZ.

THEATRE TRAINING:
She participated in many courses and seminars given by experts in several theatre matters:

INTERPRETATION:
-Natalia Zvereva: interpretation and acting training on ‘O xardín das cerdeiras’, by A, Chejov.
-Albert Boadella: the actor as a creator.
-Martín Adjemián: interpretation.
-Eduardo Puceiro: Stanislavsky method.
-María Ruiz: interpretation seminar on ‘Macbeth’ (W. Shakespeare)
-Augusto Fdez: three seminars working texts by Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chejov.
-José Sanchis Sinisterra: the actor as a playwright.

BODY LANGUAGE:
-Nikolai Karpov: the actor’s body language.
-Judith Wainer: body language.
-Carlos Neira: the actor’s body language.
-Linda Morrison: dance.

VOCAL WORK:
-Irina Promptovna: Russian school.
-Jesús Aladrén: Madrilian school.
-Paco Martínez Barreiro: Galician diction and work on theatre text.
-Mª Teresa Villar Álvarez: Galician diction and work on theatre text.

THEATRE SPACE:
-Francisco Nieva: scenography and theatre space through history.