Some Truths and Other Perversities

By KALENT ZAIZ

Some Truths And Other Perversities is a compilation of some theatrical works and scripts for short fictions written by Kalent Zaiz during the point of her life when she was given a break in acting. The works written during the process were created and designed as a concern of an actress, the feelings during the career years in the majority of the projects where she worked. The scripts have strong, masculine characters. After that, she began to start searching for feminine or historical character like Frida Kahlo, whose lives marked a milestone in culture and in the society. Its main objective is to create a strong-willed feminine character and a deep content, away from false vanity and the established prototype.
The works of Kalent narrates a real story and daily lives of human life from simple dimension to the most complicated ones.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Mar 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781463344658

KALENT ZAIZ

Kalent Zaiz, nació el 4 de marzo de 1974, en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana; hija del doctor en medicina y educador Andrés de Jesús Duverge y la ingeniera en sistemas Josefina Zaiz; es la tercera de 6 hermanos. Al cumplir un año de edad sus padres se separaron, su madre se vio en la necesidad de separar la familia, y kalent fue llevada a vivir con los señores Antonio Sélman, Israelí nacionalizado dominicano y Blanca Milanés dominicana de padre cubano. Desde la infancia Kalent sintió inclinación por el arte, participando en festivales locales de la canción y en los eventos culturales del colegio Santísima Trinidad donde realizo sus estudios primarios, pero no fue hasta la edad de 12 años en que se dio cuenta que quería dedicar el resto de su vida al cultivo de su pasión. Desde esa temprana edad Kalent invirtió tiempo educándose con profesionales de la actuación, la danza, el canto y las artes plásticas; es a raíz de ahí que su amor por la creación, la ha llevado a la actuación, a interpretar canciones, a pintar cuadros o ejecutar números de danza en distintas ocasiones, realizando su primera exposición individual de artes plásticas en el año 2004 y participando en una colectiva en el 2005. Kalent Zaiz es una profesional consagrada, su pasión por el arte la impulsó a colaborar con distintas organizaciones culturales, lo cual la motivó a formar su propia fundación en su país, en la cual se imparten clases de diferentes disciplinas artísticas. A lo largo de su carrera como artista se ha destacado con personajes como Juana en el largometraje LA HIJA NATURAL, Tatica en la Serie de televisión nicaragüense CONTRACORRIENTE y otros tantos en la serie HISTORIAS VERDADERA de la Televisión Dominicana. Ha danzado en más de 30 espectáculos, ha protagonizado más de 50 obras de teatro y dirigido más de 30. A la edad de 16 años el Dramaturgo Dominicano Rafael Leonel García Hernández, al mirar algunos de sus ensayos, le pidió a Kalent que escribiera el prologo de su libro AGONIAS DE LAS ULTIMAS HORAS, a partir de ahí kalent comenzó a tomar en serio sus propios escritos, llevando a escena obras de su autoría tales como: ´´LOS FANTASMAS DE FRIDA KAHLO”, ´´APOCALIPSIS, UN PACTO CON DIOS O CON EL DIABLO´´ algunas incluidas en esta edición, entre las cuales se encuentran cuatro obras de teatro, veinte cincos imágenes y dos guiones para ficción. En la actualidad kalent se encuentra finalizando un guión para la pantalla grande, y es presidenta de la compañía de entretenimiento que lleva su nombre.

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Copyright © 2013 by Kalent Zaiz.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2012923109

ISBN:      Hardcover            978-1-4633-4467-2

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DREAMING OF KALENT

BROWNIES

CHAOS

WRONG FEELINGS

APOCALYPSE: A PACT WITH GOD OR DEVIL

FRIDA KAHLO´S GHOSTS

Agony of Delirium

Dangerous Confusions

DAMN NYMPH

Scripts and dramaturgy: Kalent Zaiz.

Cover image: Brendaliz Negron (Puerto Rico)

Editing production: Kalent Zaiz International LLC.

Legal rights: Kalent Zaiz/ Kalent Zaiz International LLC.

Biography picture: Brenda Liz Negron

Biography image editing: Brenda Liz Negron

Interior images: Brenda liz Negron,

   Mayerling Garcia

   Zaizlin Dusanch

Poem Damn Nymph: creation of Puro Tejada, Dominican poet and writer.

Poem Dreaming of Kalent: creation of Néstor Caballero, Venezuelan screenwriter and playwright.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I thank the internal strength, freedom and power that every human being designates with different names, according their belief, philosophy, intelligentsia or ignorance; the sovereignty that grants each person the ability to feel, touch, smell, hear, to call as they please that tool that strengthens them. I thank the wisdom of being aware that the eternal quest for knowledge authorizes us to grow.

I thank all and every person who, in one way or another, has been an important part of my evolution. I thank my daughter, Zaizlin Sánchez, for being my best friend and having, at her young age, enough maturity to understand my actions and to be my accomplice. I thank my son, Braxton Sánchez, for confirming in every question that not only ignorance can be daring, and for the energy and strength he gives me step by step. I thank them for believing me capable of transforming the seemingly impossible.

I thank all my students for being an important part of my learning and allowing me to see them develop and expand as social values.

It is unavoidable to express my gratitude to all print, radio and TV broadcasters that have been present in my career; to the public, which has worn out this long and continuous walk. I thank to country, my people that, no matter where I may be, is there to remind me of my origins; I thank the companies that have supported my projects; my artist friends and directors for the collective growth.

Thanks to the artists that made these images possible through time:

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DREAMING OF KALENT

   I dream of Kalent

   of green skin

   of blue skin

   of orange skin

   of purple skin

   and with the moon

   sleepy between her lips.

   I dream of Kalent

   woman

   with seven rivers

   playing

   in her hands calm arabesque.

   I dream of Kalent, fruiting

   in her four cardinal points.

   I dream that Kalent has her own skies

   and her Sun and rains and miracles that come and go

   and a January of sands

   and a balcony anguish at two in the morning

   and angels that wash her face

   and an Amazonian belly with angelic plants

   and in my dream

   she creates me

   in her belly button

   and sinks me in her vitality

   and in the dance

      of her green skin

         of her blue skin

            of her orange skin

               of her purple skin

   finally,

   in the celebration

      dancing and agitated

               of her water skin

      she makes me swim in her infinite

         where there are no more laments

   over a dream

   lost

   already long ago.

Néstor Caballero

Monday, January 28, 2008

BROWNIES

2011

Script for fiction

Screenplay: Kalent D. Zaiz

Storyline: Kalent D. Zaiz

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SYNOPSIS

Based on real events, it tells the story of a 35-year-old foreign woman, residing in Nicaragua due to a employment contract, accompanied by her children, both minors. At the height of Christmas, this woman is invited by the wife of a co-worker to spend a few days with her children at their home on an island off the coast of Nicaragua. She accepts the invitation so her children wouldn’t spend the holidays bored, but a day before, she receives a call from her colleague, who tells her that he would pick her up to talk about travelling expenditures and that she has to accompany him to a party. That night, something that puts her physical and emotional integrity and her life in God’s hands happens. In this story, the work and honesty of public institutions, where trust in others is paramount, is tested.

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CHARACTERS

TERESA

TERESA’S DAUGHTER (13 YEARS OLD)

TERESA’S SON (8 YEARS OLD)

ANTONIO (TERESA’S CO-WORKER)

ELISABETH (ANTONIO’S WIFE)

SONY

SONY’S COUPLE (CLEO)

GABRIELA (BROWNIE)

ALEJANDRO

MARIZA

DANIEL

TROPICAL MUSIC BAND/ROCK BAND

60-YEAR-OLD LADY (BIRTHDAY GIRL, ANTONIO’S FRIEND)

MRS. MAYRA

MRS. MAYRA’S DAUGHTER (17 YEARS OLD)

MRS. MAYRA’S SON

EXTRAS IN EDUARDO’S INN RESTAURANT

VOICE-OVERS

GIRL (TELEPHONE COMPANY CUSTOMER SERVICE)

ELIEZER (FIRE STATION)

OFFICER (POLICE STATION)

ROBERTO

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BROWNIES

FADE IN.

EXTERIOR. EDUARDO’S INN (RESTAURANT. NIGHT).

The camera focuses on a cauldron with boiling oil. When we look, some feminine hands throw slices/plantain/bananas to get fried. An obese girl, with a beautiful smile, shows the variety of dishes for the night. The camera moves towards the precipitous laughter of a group of girls and penetrates into the interior of the mouth (FADE-TO-BLAK). We see Teresa, who finishes her dinner. She looks at her bored daughter, who hits the plate with the spoon, while her son makes gestures with his mouth.

TERESA

Finish your dinner, daughter.

THE DAUGHTER

I’m full. (Turning her head away from her mother). You said we would go for a walk at Christmas. The year is already ending, and we haven’t gone to my country in all the year. All the time from school to home, from home to school, locked in this damned country.

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TERESA

(Breathing deep not to lose patience). I know I said that, daughter, but the situation is very difficult… I cannot spend money on that trip right now.

At that moment, Teresa watches her coworker, Antonio, arrive, with his