Haffe Serulle Presents Kali-Gula-Bach

Novelist and playwright Haffe Serulle will present the theater piece Kali-Gula-Bach from April 19-30 at 8:00 p.m. in the Manuel Rueda Hall at the Fine Arts Building. This play was written in homage to Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre and composer Johan Sebastian Bach. The play is being presented under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the General Directorate of Fine Arts and the Foundation of Arts and Science.

Kali-Gula-Bach is a theater piece made up of Vicente Aleixandre’s poems set to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, according to a press release from the Ministry of Culture.

The show expresses the content and significance of blood throughout humanity’s long process of development and encourages us to defend it as a fundamental element of life. That is, the blood we shed through violence that grips the majority of countries in the world is nothing more than a warning that we remain far from comprehending, in all its dimensions and its true value. This theater piece allows us to reflect on the implications of the blood spilled in the permanent conflict between man and man, man and society and between man and nature.

This show is a song dedicated to music, to the word, to love and, through its form, it is a challenge to art itself. The public will have the opportunity to enjoy a singular and transcendental experience in the context of universal theater.

Haffe Serulle presenta Kali-Gula-Bach.

Haffe Serulle presenta Kali-Gula-Bach.

Haffe Serulle presenta Kali-Gula-Bach.

Haffe Serulle presenta Kali-Gula-Bach .

More about Haffe Serulle

Haffe Serulle, writer and dramatist born in the Dominican Republic in 1947, was twice the winner of the National Theater Award. His name figures among important encyclopedias and foreign magazines that specialize in literature. He was the secretary general of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) where he founded the UASD Theater and taught for 25 years in the Humanities Department. In addition, he was President of the Dominican Union for Human Rights and Director of the National Theater School.

Author of more than 20 theater pieces, 4 books of poetry and 2 books of essays, Serulle also wrote the following novels: I Am Going to Kill the President (Voy a matar al Presidente); The Darkness of the Dictator (Las tinieblas del dictador); The Flight of the Empires (El vuelo de los imperios); The Transit of the Watch (El tránsito del reloj) and The Manuscripts of Alginatho (Los manuscritos de Alginatho).