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Self-destruction

In this tribe, Loyola is reinventing a character of a 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.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Ricardo Loyola (Ricardo Loyola Mejia)

* 1987, 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.

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.