The play Concerto for 3 and a coin, which addresses geriatric abandonment by way of a musical and carnival language, proposes that “happiness will not be a aim to have at 80 years outdated, however somewhat it’s about dwelling within the current at every stage of our lives.” This was stated by Sebastián Valdés, director of the manufacturing whose season will conclude on June 27.
The playwright defined to The Convention The staging of the Tranvía Teatro firm combines the experiences of a rock or fashionable music live performance with that of impartial theater in Mexico Metropolis; impressed by two Uruguayan experiences: the Cuarteto de Nos and the murga based in 2001 Agarrate Catalina.
Valdés famous that “it speaks primarily about worry. We’re a really younger firm that could be very conscious of what is going to occur sooner or later with the selections we make at present. The characters are two older adults who mirror on their life choices.
“Roberto He adopted his goals and have become a theater announcer and a health care provider in anthropology, he’s very literate and but he’s not glad as a result of he feels that he was not price it. However, Mario adjusted to what society anticipated of him and regrets him as a result of he considers that if he had adopted his goals he would have achieved larger happiness in his outdated age. “It’s the expression of our generational fears about geriatric abandonment.”
Sebastián Valdés (Astor Notrem) recalled that the dramaturgical textual content was based mostly on interviews to indicate the ideas and emotional prepare that the characters journey: “I reside in a really small neighborhood made up nearly totally of older adults, during which quite a lot of precedence is given to their wants and but they appear to stay like an adjunct to their kids or the individuals who look after them.”
For its creation, he used the language of murga reveals, “which in Uruguay is a gaggle of people that develop reveals for the carnival, of social denunciation, and use music to precise themselves. A mechanism they use to keep away from falling into tragedy, into the emotional abandonment of the general public, is to shut with a hopeful or reflective observe that offers a kinder conclusion.”
In his case, Valdés defined, “we return to the childhood of the 2 characters, we see them play like kids, even with the actors embodying them in outdated age, and develop this apparent bond with which they met and developed their friendship.”
The work to develop their characters started with workout routines by the actors María Valdez, José Ángel Juárez and Martín Pizano with “a masks that by itself doesn’t mirror any emotion and forces them to hunt to first bodily categorical the actions from their individuality and, then , from the evaluation they product of the textual content to have the ability to construct a physique sculpture of the characters, somewhat with Meyerhold’s concept of biomechanics to construct reminiscences, experiences and feelings.”
He concluded that “we want, clearly every individual perceives issues in a different way, for the attendees to depart with a form of reduction that we’re a speck of mud and our choices solely have weight for ourselves, however that that’s okay. We do not have to be masterpieces as individuals to be glad and happiness will not be one thing that at 80 years outdated you need to say ‘I really feel glad’, however somewhat one thing that’s constructed.”
The work Concerto for 3 and a coin It would have performances on Thursdays in June, at 8 p.m., at 77 Centro Cultural Autogestivo (Abraham González quantity 77, Juárez neighborhood).
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– 2024-06-13 14:08:07
