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" The fault "

The Masquerade JUSTICE

Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Adaptation and dramaturgy: Fernando Sansone. Address: Blanca Portillo. Starring: José Luis García Pérez, Asier Etxeandía, Emma Suarez, Daniel Grau, Fernando Soto, José Luis Torrijo. Slaughterhouse- Ships from English. Madrid.

interesting point of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in this novel converted into a radio script and adapted now by Fernando Sansegundo Blanca Portillo to demonstrate that they lead, and knows, as are six works and it looks the business, "besides acting, work in" The fault " left to an outstanding sextet. Dürrenmatt delves into the dilemma of the limits of justice. But instead of going to the well-worn eye for an eye, make up a disturbing game Portillo key plays in comedy comic touches terrifying: the old friends to dinner which will give the chance of a breakdown, the merchant-super Alfredo Traps José Luis García Pérez, deploying a range of records, self-sufficiency to the desperation takes place in a gothic mansion in which the past ulula and is invoked in ceremonies at the viewer's imagination, which produces nightmares.

But, as usual, the real terror is in life and in oneself. The set of masks to a former judge, prosecutor and lawyer, and any other retiree whose job it is better not to disclose, subject to the guest at a lavish evening is to remember that none are free from blame and that justice reaches where the law does not arrive. It does not sell, but not unmasked in its Hellenic sense, also in the theater, as the author's proposal is pure ritual. Portillo unable to find the essence and adds a dark humor.

The problem is to mix the mask and the masquerade. The choice of latex as a resource, because five young actors portraying-unrecognizable-old, is a bit bizarre and unjustified. Asier Exteandia, Scrooge's rival as the fiscal Machiavellian Thorn, is round. As Jose Luis Torrijos, who plays the lawyer, Daniel Grau, the judge right host, and Fernando Soto, Pilet, effective "servant" with surprise. But there was no old actors trained for the role? Would not it have been a true theatrical greatest option, without artifice? You could even have allowed these actors, not false, demonstrated their ability to be old.

PS is becoming standard in our scenarios abuse text microphones on stage, but the young players should know to get your naked voice to the back rows. If not, there's the TV ...

Photo: García Pérez, surrounded by the old (Photo: Son Aoujil)