Los Macocos was formed in 1985. Its members were all students from the National School of Dramatic Art, who later continued in the Los Volatineros workshop, at the Escuela del Parque, with Professor Roberto Saisz, between 1985 and 1988. They began to be shown in pubs and experimentation centers, and their shows represented the uncovering of the eighties. They shared behind the scenes with avant-garde figures Batato Barea, Alexander Urdapilleta and Humberto Tortonese at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, at that time one of the most prominent youth redoubts on the underground scene.
In their beginnings they were part of the so-called cultural explosion that was generated with the return of democracy, in 1983, together with the experiences that were made in places like El Parakultural, Cemento, or the red. Among the groups that participate in these meeting points we can mention La Banda de la Risa with Claudio Gallardou, El Clú del Claun with Batato Barea, Gambas al Ajillo with Alejandra Flechner, María José Gabin, and Verónica Llinás, Los Melli, with Carlos Belloso and Damián Dreizik and the unconventional Black Organization, that came to intervene the Obelisk.
“Los Macocos don’t do theater, they undo it,” laughs Daniel Casablanca, one of its members. And he explains that they don’t make conventional, commercial, solemn theater, but they always look for it to have play, to be fun and relaxed.
In addition to Casablanca, the group is currently made up of Martín Salazar, Gabriel Wolf and Marcelo Xicarts. They have had more than fifteen comedy shows, received more than twenty awards and have performed in the most important Buenos Aires theaters, such as those of the Buenos Aires Theater Complex, including the San Martín Theater, Cervantes National Theater, Metropolitan Theater, La Plaza Complex, at the same time of having performed throughout the country. They were invited on several occasions to festivals abroad, in Washington DC, Barcelona, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, among others. And since the stage was too small for them, they took out a few books: Theater 90, undone theater 1, Flora and fauna of the Macocal creation y Illustrated Little Daddy.
His work Maten and Hamlet, appears at Paseo La Plaza every Saturday at 7:15 p.m. and on Sundays at 9:30 pm, directed by Sebastián Irigo. There they tell the story of Shakespeare from the perspective of four jesters in the Middle Ages. The protagonists arrive in Denmark in search of Uncle Yorick, the best court jester in Elsinore, but it is too late and Yorick is no longer among the living. It’s also not a good time in the castle because the king was recently assassinated, his brother has taken the throne and married his sister-in-law. Through a series of entanglements, the jesters are placed in the service of Hamlet but must kill him.
The four actors play multiple characters on stage. Between comic and parodic pictures there is almost no respite. From beginning to end, the work provokes laughter and laughter in the public.
Some spectators from the first period of Los Macocos say that they bring their children, there are students of Social Sciences or Literature who work on their texts and also theater students who perform shows on the texts of works such as The Marrapodi o The Bathrobes.
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