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In the heart of South America is a mountain, as beautiful in the light of morning as cruel in the darkness of the mines that run through it in all directions. Salvador, a child of the mountain, who has become a writer, remembers . . . the departure of his father and brother, who never returned, his sister Ana’s coloured pencils, his other sister Teresa’s reveries, the shoeshine boys whose fate he should have shared, if his mother had not felt so strongly that every mango tree may produce mangos. In remembering his past, Salvador renews his relationship with the soul, culture, and values of his people.
Marcelo Arroyo
Marcelo Arroyo has also explored voice work in greater depth in the radio fiction program La guerre d’Arica, directed by Line Meloche on Radio-Canada's cultural channel, and at Théâtre de la Dame de Cœur with the show Harmonía, where he was the voice of Shin, the child-doctor, in Spanish. On television, he is in the cast of the series Pure laine, and his movie credits include Légendes urbaines and Ma voisine danse le ska.
Carole Chatel
Over the years, Carole Chatel has worked in the theatre under a number of directors, including Alexandre Hausvater, Daniel Roussel, and Jean-Louis Roux, on institutional stages, and in theatre for young audiences. She was in the cast of Ubu Roi at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, Comme il vous plaira at La Licorne, Mahagonny at Quat’sous, Les 2 sœurs for Théâtre de Quartier, and Salvador for Le Carrousel, a show produced in French and English. In Europe, she has toured in Don Juan with the Théâtre National de Marseille, directed by Marcel Maréchal.
Marcela Pizarro Minella
Born in Chile and equally at home acting in French, Spanish, and English, Marcela Pizarro Minella is an actor and director, with a degree from the Conservatoire d'Art dramatique de Montréal. She is the co-artistic director and co-founder of Les Indisciplinaires, winner of the Le choix du public 2007-2008 award from the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée for the show Autour de Pablo Neruda. The company has been involved in a number of international co-productions: Tombouctou 52 jours à dos de chameau (Mali/Morocco/Quebec/France), La vida no vale nada/La vie ne vaut rien (Canada/Mexico – Award for best direction), and Une Hyène à jeun, which she co-directed (Mali/Canada/France – UNESCO Award for promotion of the arts). In the theatre, she has played in Salvador directed by Gervais Gaudreault, Un Tramway nommé désir directed by René-Richard Cyr, and Les Troyennes, created by Alice Ronfard, both at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and La petite porte au fond du shack directed by Cécile Lasserre at Théâtre champêtre du moulin Fleming. Her movie credits include Imitation and Cutting Edge 3; on TV, she has been seen in Quatre et demi, Pure Laine II, Annie et ses Hommes, and Providence.
Alejandro Venegas
Alejandro Venegas co-founded, with Simon Claude, the music group Intakto, combining his talent as a composer, his voice, and his Latin musical soul with his need to express the fusion of the two cultures that inhabit him. Intakto has received two ADISQ nominations, won the Félix Award for album of the year, world music, 2003, and was nominated for a Juno in 2004.
Jean-Guy Viau
An experienced actor, Jean-Guy Viau also teaches at the theatre schools at CÉGEP de Saint-Hyacinthe and Collège Lionel-Groulx. Over thirty years, Viau, who trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, has worked in more than sixty productions, treading the boards of the most important stages in Quebec (Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, Théâtre de Quat’Sous, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe, etc.), under the direction of André Brassard, Claude Poissant, and Alice Ronfard, among others. On television, he has been on a number of programs, including Pendant ce temps devant la télé, Jamais deux sans toi, and Le Volcan tranquille. In the movies, he can be seen in François Girard's Mourir and Michel Moreau's Les Trois Montréal.
SALVADOR in Quebec September 24 to October 12, 2008 Maison Théâtre/Montreal
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A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Marcelo Arroyo plays with equal ease in French, English, and Spanish. A Chilean by birth, Arroyo has worked with a number of directors, both starting out and established: André Brassard, Cristina Iovita, Christian Lapointe, Denis Lavalou, Wajdi Mouawad, Emma Tibaldo, and others. He was in the cast of the most recent Roméo et Juliette at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, Platonov at Théâtre Prospero, and Aphrodite en 04 at Espace libre. When he joined the original cast of Salvador, he already had experience with young audiences, since he had been in the first production of Garçon aux sabots at Arrière-Scène. 
Carole Chatel, a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, is well known to Quebec audiences for her many appearances on TV shows for adults, children, and teens, including Casino II, L’or du temps, Paul, Marie et les enfants,Robin et Stella, and Watatatow. For a number of years, she has voiced TV and radio programs (Découvertes, Enjeux, Zone libre, ARTV, Canal Vie, Historia, RDI, TVA, Radio-Canada) and dubbed movies (Carmen Maura - La Loi du désir, Queen Latifah - Chicago and Last Holiday, Whoopi Goldberg – A long walk home, Zira – The Lion King II).
A musician, singer, composer, and actor, Alejandro Venegas grew up in Chile, immersed in the Latin sounds that shaped his musical sensibilities. He has steeped himself in many influences: pop music, Latin American folklore, and the classical repertoire. He was self-taught until he went to Montreal, where he studied music and theatre with Monique Cardinal, Gisèle Poulin, David Doane, and Murielle Matteau, among others. Through his encounters with people in the worlds of theatre and music, he developed a personal musical style situated between theatrical expression and poetry. He collaborates as a composer and actor with various directors, including Guy Beausoleil, Michel Monty, and Danielle Zana, as well as being involved in the creation of Salvador. He has also worked on Autour de Pablo Neruda produced by Les Indisciplinaires. 
