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Theatrical
hot tamale
Astrid Hadad from
Mexico wows with
colourful costumes
and ranchero rock
IN CONCERT C5

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The bent, surreal world of
the Astrid Hadad revue
PERFORMANCE ART : Brilliantly theatrical Mexican entertainer
In concert
Astrid Hadad y Los
Tarzanes
Where: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC
When: Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets: $36-$45 at Ticketmaster

Other than the looking on from
either wing of the cautionary play
we call the U.S, Canada and Mexico don't have a lot in common. Histories, languages and cultures are
all quite distinct and separate. OK,
except for tequila. Tequila knows
no borders.
And nor, it turns out, does the brilliantly theatrical, bawdy, campy,
mournful, sacreligious and very
funny Astrid Hadad. She may speak
a fractured Spanglish one-on-one
but give her a stage, a spotlight, her
Los Tarzanes band and that bottomless trunk of outrageous costtimes and the simpatico is
absolute.
It helps to know Hadad comes
from a deeply Catholic culture
where brightly painted pictures of
bleeding hearts, burning martyrs
and general spiritual agonies were
the Smurfs of her childhood.
Churchy imagery and iconography
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John P, McLaughlin
ON MUSIC

become high camp in the bent, surreal world of the Hadadian revue,
just like she plays up the Mexican
ranchera cliche of trumpets, guitars and the handlebar moustachio.
Ole, baby.
"The Catholic religion says we
came into this world to suffer," says
Hadad, "and some suffering is
"The Catholic religion says
we came into this world to
suffer and some suffering is
inevitable. But I believe we
came into the world to go
shopping/'
— Astrid

Hadad

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inevitable. But I believe we came
into the world" — big smile — "to
go shopping."
She's an Olympian shopper and
always with an eye to stagecraft.
She has a staff of believers who
will stitch, glue and otherwise
assemble the crazy costumes she
envisions, using the treasures she
drags in from her forays through
the shops of Mexico City.
It's Tutti-Frutti Cabaret as she
emerges outfitted as a garden she
waters as she sings away, or wearing gargantuan sombreros filled
with feathers or confetti or margarita glasses. Or maybe she'll be
the Virgin of Guadalupe or even the
Statue Of Liberty sticking it to
Dubya. She's fearless and hilarious
and frequently damned poignant.
I've heard there's one costume
where she's a living room — sofa,
lamps and all.
She makes provocative, extravagant performance art all stirred
into the polyrhythms of a ranchero,
bolero, rhumba, rock and jazz
sopa. A little tequila on the side?
Absolutely.
"You enjoy yourself and the others will enjoy themselves, too,"
she will say. "I am a provider of
pleasure."
Astrid Hadad loves outrageous costumes in her campy act.

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