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Reviews...
"**** FOUR STAR HOTEL... This is a production to catch, not just for its theatrical strengths and insights into an important historic event, but also because it puts Canadian Latin American artists centre stage. It's a triumphant debut for Alameda Theatre." - NOW Magazine
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"The Refugee Hotel is a powerful, engaging, moving, sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes funny piece of theatre. It’s definitely worth taking the time to see. Just don’t forget your kleenex." - Mooney on Theatre
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*** "an engaging mash-up of comedy and tragedy that somehow seems to mirror the bewildering experience exiled immigrants encounter when starting new lives here in Canada." - EYE Weekly
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"These are incredibly powerful stories that could hold their own without a stage. But what was most interesting about the staging of these stories was its treatment of the Canadian cultural landscape as a welcoming, yet precarious destination for newcomers..." - Curzon Online Review
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Feature Stories
What it's like to arrive at a place called exile.
"Drawing on personal experience, Carmen Aguirre's play chronicles the plight of Chilean refugees fleeing the Pinochet regime..." - article by The Globe & Mail
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The Refugee Hotel looks at exiled lives.
"Marilo Nunez remembers when, in her theatre school days, she was labelled a Latin American performer, allowed only certain roles because of her look and her skill with a Spanish accent." article by NOW Magazine
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CBC Radio One / Fresh Air Feature Interview
Host Mary Ito discusses the play with playwright Carmen Aguirre & Producer Marilo Nunez.
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Ghosts of revolutions past.
"Carmen Aguirre’s new play, The Refugee Hotel, peers into personal and shared refugee experiences..." - article by Eye Weekly
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The Refugee Hotel: Historia de las penurias que vivieron un grupo de exiliados chilenos. Feature article by Toronto Hispano.com
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