Unipersonal of Gabriel Iglesias.
Gabriel Iglesias, who acts, writes and directs this one-man show, gives us a lesson in staging that is, at the same time, a public message to deliberate about mental health in Peru. It’s just that everything happens in the mind. The painful paradox is that our thoughts are fundamentally liberating, but they can also be our worst enemies. When thinking and imagining become our soulless inner monsters, we are faced with a line that is crossed and we do not know if we can return. That border between what is real and what is fictional is difficult to distinguish clearly. So, human beings are looking for anchors that help them gain clarity in that haze of what is and what seems to be. Sometimes we get lost in that search.
That is why this remarkable performance by Iglesias, reflective, well-armed musically, with a persuasive scenography, deepened by the dramatic management of lights, has the appearance of being one of the best demonstrations of the sorcerous power of the performing arts. The thing is that the story told has the scriptural splendor of being irreproachably assembled with an extraordinary performance and that pushes the viewer to surrender to the rhythms of an imaginary and playful band that is just the projection of a torn mind. There is an anguished, stormy battle that is slowly unfolding, which we are witnessing as uselessly privileged witnesses. A very crude dispute is going on before our eyes and we cannot intervene.
There is an existential weight of supporting for years the daily consequences of being in conditions of permanent anxiety, sudden panic, multiple voices that suddenly appear, times that intersect, imaginary lives that coexist naturally, which indicate to us that there is an irreversible break, a vital crack in reality, in which a scenic exercise, as demonstrated Eager creaturesconfronts us with it, without populist victimhood, but with a forceful pedagogy in which aesthetics, complicit and exact, also mark those fractures, those essential fragments that explode without anything or very little being able to be done.
Completely devoted to the masterful performance on stage, Iglesias sings, or rather demands with war cries, with the verisimilitude of a pop star, who fights a profound crusade to warn us that mental pathologies are not artistic, no matter how much the seem, but a call for attention to assist us, listen to us, call for professional help when necessary. In this way, the message is launched on stage, to remind us that no one is safe from intimate skirmishes becoming uncontrollable.
Location: British Theater of Miraflores
Directs, writes and acts: Gabriel Iglesias
Performance: February 8:30 pm
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