This Sunday, the Cinépolis Klic platform had a function of The play that goes wrong, theatrical piece that resorts to metatextuality and finds in streaming new reasons to play with the so-called fourth wall.
The show begins behind the scenes, with a television interview with the fictional director of The Murder at the Haversham Manor, the play within a play. With healthy distance and clothing to prevent contagion (masks and masks), the reporter and director are abruptly interrupted to comment on the disappearance of the dog, essential for the theater piece that is already on its second call.
After watching the theater workers prepare the stage where a good part of the play takes place (the living room of the aforementioned mansion), the audience observes Charles Haversham on the couch, apparently dead. This murder unleashes a series of inconveniences between the characters, with theatrical gags seasoned by the “errors” of the staging. This self-referentiality to the theater is also transmitted in moments where the characters question why people laugh, after the comic scenes.
Tables that leave their place, assistants on stage, alternate actors reading the libretto in full performance and the unexpected appearance of Timbiriche’s music are some of the moments that awaken laughter in the public (the function that was broadcast was recorded with people in the seats).
With original dramaturgy by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Work That Goes Bad has reaped successes since its premiere in 2012. In its translation into Spanish and in Mexico it has received the applause of the public in the country’s capital, in addition to the Metropolitan Theater Award (2019) in the category of public vote.
The staging has the participation of a cast made up of Majo Pérez, Luis Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Medellín, Ari Albarrán, Artús Chávez, Ana Sofía Gatica, Daniel Haddad and Iván Carbajal. Cinépolis Klic repeats performances of The Work That Goes Bad this coming January 8, 8 and 10, in addition to having other plays with Mexican production (Privacy with Diego Luna, Darkness gives me laugh and La pastorela).
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