A GOLPE DE CALCETÍN is a project that brings to the stage the short novel for children by the writer Francisco Hinojosa through the theater of masks and objects and live music produced by Idiotas Teatro and 25 Production, which has been dedicated since its inception to the creation of shows for young audiences.
This staging is built from the drama of the actor, using the poetics of the clown and the mask to bring this literary text to dramatic action. An oneiric world that places us in the first half of the 20th century in Mexico City accompanied by sound and visual landscapes that recover the longing for the years of yore. The staging proposal is designed as we have done in previous productions by Cristian David and Fernando Reyes Reyes who together with the other members create the collective staging accompanied by objects that come to life.
Paco Poyo is a boy of 12 years old; after being forced to drop out of school as a result of the economic crisis facing the working class in the post-revolutionary era; he walked the streets of Mexico City selling newspapers "at the stroke of a sock". One day, a mysterious character offers him to buy all his newspapers in exchange for doing him a little favor, but Paco never imagined that an apparently easy and fun mission would lead him to appear in the headlines of the newspapers he sold.
Cristian David
Member of the (SNCA) Sistema Nacional de Creadores del FONCA 2022-2025. Actor graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral del INBAL with a Master's Degree in Stage Direction from the same institution. Since 2012 he has founded and directed the Idiotas Teatro Company (Artes Escénicas LABITE A.C.) together with Fernando Reyes Reyes. His creative work has focused on the creation of original shows for young audiences and for the whole family, exploring and retaking the actor as the creative axis and manager of his own poetics; mainly based on the experimentation of the clown technique in genres that also allow to create new dramaturgies from the actor-creator; specializing in the creation of stage pieces from physical comedy, object handling and mask theatre. His stage work has earned him recognition from New York theatre critics with two awards: ACE (Assotiation of Latin Entertainment Critics of New York) in 2013 and HOLA (Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors New York) in 2014. It has benefited from the FONCA on four occasions and from the Estimulo Fiscal para la Producción Teatral (EFITEATRO) on three occasions. With Idiotas Teatro they have performed in important national and international venues such as: Festival Internacional Cervantino, Jornadas Alarconianas, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Latino International Theater Festival of New York, Encuentro Internacional de Teatro en Sevilla España, Latino International Theater Dallas Tx, el Chamizal, Muestras Nacionales de Teatro among others. In 2016 he received the "Premio de la Juventud de la Ciudad de México" for his outstanding artistic and cultural work with the company Idiotas Teatro. In 2022 he received eleven nominations from the Academia Metropolitana de Teatro (Los Metro) for his play "A golpe de calcetín" with which he received three awards and this same year he directed the award ceremony of the Agrupación de Críticos y Periodistas Teatrales (ACPT) at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris in which he received nine nominations. Among the plays he has written and directed are: Dentirrostra, Pájaro, O, Elefantes, MCBTH, Las Tropas, Firmemos la Paz, No Yo and A golpe de calcetín. He has given workshops and courses in different cultural dependencies of the country, as well as in migrant communities in the USA and indigenous communities.
Fernando Reyes
Member of Idiotas Teatro - Graduated as an actor from the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral del INBA and the diploma in Voice from the Centro para el Estudio de la Voz (CEUVOZ). He has been trained with teachers such as Claudia Ríos, Héctor Berthier, Carlos Corona, Gabriela Pérez Negrete, Jesús Díaz and Claudio Tolcachir. Founding member of the company Idiotas Teatro where he has written the plays Pájaro and "O" which have participated in the Muestras Nacionales de Teatro 2013 and 2014 respectively. He received a grant from PECDA Oaxaca 2010 and 2012/b. He received recognition from HOLA (Hispanic Organization Latin Actors) for his performance in the play Pájaro and the ACE award for best visiting actor in New York. He has participated in national and international festivals such as El Chamizal Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, the 17th Latino International Theatrer Festival Dallas, Tx. Jornadas Alarconianas, the International Theater Festival of New York: TeatroStageFest 2012 and 2013, the Cervantino 2013, the Encuentro de Artes Escénicas del FONCA 2013 and Encuentro de Teatro Joven de Sevilla, Spain, 2014. Together with his company, he has been awarded the Premio de la Juventud de la Ciudad de México 2016. He is currently directing the play Las tropas, a co-production with the Sistema de teatros de la Ciudad de México and is preparing the play "A golpe de calcetín" by Francisco Hinojosa with Idiotas Teatro to premiere next year.
