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Self-destruction

This tribe is a reinterpretation of a character in the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner and directed by Moritz Riesewieck within the framework of the XXI edition of the International Festival of University Theater at UNAM. Extraction and multiplication of the character stem from the seriousness of this global health problem. The accelerated way of life in big cities, globalization, physical inactivity and excessive consumerism of junk food or fast food provided by the large multinational food chains are some of the reasons that have pushed humanity to malnutrition, affecting without discrimination all social strata. The collection of costumes is made with wrappers that falls apart as the characters get fat. The gradual evolution of this costume transforms the actor into a thoughtful, ridiculous and grotesque allegory of the disease, which shows quite literally the worldwide problem of malnutrition caused by poor diet, deformation and degeneration of the body and self-esteem.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Ricardo Loyola (Ricardo Loyola Mejia)

, Mexico City
Specialization: director, costume designer
Education: Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Literature and Theatre, UNAM
Collaboration with theatres: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro Julio Prieto, Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Teatro Julio Castillo, Teatro Carlos Lazo and Teatro Ignacio López Tarso
Teaching activities: Theatre workshops at the Integral Institute for People with Special Educational Needs AC
Continuing collaboration with directors: Martín Acosta, David Gaitán, Moritz Riesewieck, Diego Alvarez Robledo, Kayla Adams, Luis Lance, Abilio Tavares, Juan Alberto Alejos, Irinia Gonzalez, Antonio Castro and Ángel Rubio.
Additional information: He has designed costumes for more than a dozen plays with leading directors and won the Lech Hellwing Górzyński Award for Theatre Stage Creation in 2009 and 2012. He has also directed several plays involving actors with autism and Down Syndrome.

'Moritz Riesewieck'

Exhibiting works

• Georg Büchner: Autodestrucción (Self-destruction), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico), 2014, Director: Moritz Riesewieck, Sergio Villegas, Set Design Matías Gorlero, Lighting Identification of exhibit: costume
  Comments: In this tribe, I am reinventing a character of our version of Büchner´s Woyzeck to demonstrate that the excessive and careless way of eating sugar harms the most vulnerable ones of the family at all social levels.