Is it possible that Ovid, the great Latin poet, the author of The art of Loving y Metamorphosis, ask the goddess Venus for help so that her immortal verb reaches women? Would it be credible that the two colluded so that the theater was the channel of his verses? There is nothing that the company Teatro Yeses cannot achieve. And he will demonstrate it on the 18th at the Almagro Festival with daughters of comedya production signed by Julieta Soria as author and Elena Cánovas as director, a tandem that is beginning to establish itself on the summer scene.
The Madrid formation, born in 1985 in the Yeserías prison, presented last year at the Manchega event barefoota title about the figure of Saint Teresa of Jesus. daughters of comedywith which Yeses is now close to 50 productions in its 38 years of existence, is endowed, according to Cánovas, with a fast-paced action where the actresses find themselves involved in risky and humorous situations while clandestinely rehearsing a play, out of family and social control.
The text plays with two periods: Ancient Greece and the 17th century, and it is in this last stage where the main action takes place. “The austere wooden scenery, made up of three modules together with propsmakes it easier for changes to be made with agility”, he details to El Cultural Cánovas, who considers that we are facing a story where the characters are actresses who become the characters they are going to represent: “It is the theater within the theater that so much has characterized the productions of Yeses”.
“Classical theater has a great thematic variety, in addition to raising conflicts and eternal human values.” Elena Canovas
We are facing a company with a strong social commitment. His montages try to raise awareness, with good dose of love and humor, “of injustice, inequality of opportunities and macho attitudes. We want to achieve a more supportive society.”
For this, they have adapted, among many others, passages from The Quijoteengraved on fire the verses of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Appetizers of Cervantes and the work women alone, of the 18th century actress and playwright Mariana Cabanas.
“After our last two productions in Almagro, we want to continue participating because we consider that classical theater has a great variety of themes, in addition to raising conflicts and eternal human values,” says the director, for whom one of the keys to the theater’s current success classic are the adaptations: “With few exceptions, it is his merit, shortening and synthesizing large parliaments and substituting sentences or paragraphs for current language as a means of bringing those classic texts closer to the public.
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The shows can be more traditional or more modern (without forgetting that the productions of the time lacked today’s technical media), but maintaining the essence and the great wealth that the theater of the Golden Age represents for all of us”.
This is how the viewer of daughters of comedy she will surrender to the vicissitudes and obstacles that these women actresses have to overcome to achieve what they really want: to perform in the theaters of the Villa. “It is shocking to enter again that almost magical space like the Corral de Comedias de Almagro, which transports you to another era,” celebrates Cánovas.
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2023-07-17 23:47:44
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