When Miguel Belmonte first happened upon the notice for the Off-Off-Broadway production "Memory Is a Culinary Affair," in the pages of Back Stage, it was no simple case of history repeating itself. Rather, it was a rare opportunity for the actor to revisit the repercussions of one of the darkest hours in Latin American history. "Unfortunately, I was aware of that history," Belmonte reveals, describing the plight of "the disappeared," the thousands upon thousands of Argentines forcibly abducted by that country's military regime during the 1970s and '80s. "Spain also had a dictatorship, and I was born during the transition years to democracy. In a sense, that's a thing you always know," says the Barcelona native. A role in 2006's "Silencio Es Salud (Silence Is Health)," another play about los desaparecidos, provided a sound research foundation for his dual roles in "Memory," in which he played Pablo, a lawyer...
- 1/10/2011
- backstage.com
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