For Pold Gastelo, 2020 was a critical year. The actor survived COVID-19 and, after recovering, was able to resume his teaching career as an alternative to the crisis in the performing arts and television.
“The sad thing about this year was that they canceled projects that were already about to be released or things that were already planned,” he told the newspaper this December 30. Mail. And added that April and May 2021 “are important months for the theater”.
After the Government decreed the reopening of rooms with a capacity of up to 40%, Gastelo stated that “you also have to give people confidence”. “Because I don’t think they’re running now to go to a cinema or a theater”, He pointed.
In that sense, he was hopeful that the theater will once again be face-to-face, but with conditions such as “fewer people, with distance or perhaps in slightly more open spaces”.
“I also think that after the middle of next year things will begin to look a bit like what we had before,” said the actor of productions such as “La Perricholi”, “Back to the neighborhood”, “Colorina”, among others.
THEATER WITHOUT LIMITS
The stage of the performing arts, before the pandemic, was already difficult, but according to Gastelo “much progress had been made, thanks to the private company and many ‘quixotes’ that are within the culture and art in Peru”.
But despite the health crisis, new opportunities have opened up for culture in the digital field. And the Peruvian actor, currently dedicated to teaching, indicated that now he has had to “change the ways“And find”new tools”.
In that sense, he found “more positive than negative.” “Many courses that we teach in Lima can now be taken by people who live in remote areas of Peru or even outside the country, the issue has been pluralized ”, he diagnosed.
For Gastelo, “borders have disappeared, geographical limits”Due to the use of technology. With this, he pointed out that “it is not a matter of money”, but of “creativity and pushing the boat.”
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