THE ART AND LIFE Author: Miguel de Arco (from the text of Maxim Gorky). Address: M. Arch. Art director: Eduardo Moreno. Lighting: Juanjo Llorens. Starring: Barbara Lennie, Israel Elejalde, Mirim Montilla, Raul Prieto, Miguel Fernández, Manuela Paso, Chema Muñoz, Elisabet Gelabert, Christopher Smith, Lydia Otto, Ernesto Arias. Abbey Theatre. Madrid.
After the surprise that led to "Role be done "to the sleepy setting Madrid, Miguel del Arco and actors of that brilliant assembly have been the hardest yet. All the keys of that success, the audience arranged around the stage, winks metatheatrical, humor and drama in equal-are back in 'Vacationer' without resulting repetitive, because good theater is never tired. What they achieved deconstructing Pirandello multiply it by dynamiting to Gorky. The original "The holidaymakers' are just the foundation in this new work. But manages to forget everything for another ritual that invokes the characters confused. Seres
beautiful and pure, as Barbara, or window-dressing, like Israel, the characters embody the best and, above all, the worst of any human group: silliness, egotism and empty. Bourgeois training are high, but the evils of cultural and economic elite can be applied to other subsets. The idealistic moral high ground requires everyone, the rebel-turned-jester, the eccentric of meditation and the chakras, the icon of idealism mired in misanthropy or artist obsessed with a creative ideal that betrays itself, draw a tribe of ill-assorted vacationers whose weak links are doomed from the start to fracture.
In the process, indicate the relationship discussions between art and the commitment or ability to change the system or be absorbed by it, as happens to a politician without beginning to come to power. Gorki qualifies Arc respecting the depth of the ideas but the language closer to other work than that is pure energy.
entire cast participates in an interpretive choreography as few companies are able to coordinate, with dances, songs, tremendous physical delivery and memorable performances from the corrupt candidate to unbelieving Israel Elejalde novelist Ernesto Arias, purity wound Barbara Lennie , sexual provocation Elisabet Gelabert or philosophy of Survivor entrepreneur Raúl Prieto. Lydia Otto, Chema Muñoz, Manuela Paso, Miguel Fernandez, Christopher Smith and Miriam Montilla shine equally. Not everyone was in "The function to be done", but the four new faces are molded perfectly to the existing company and round a huge work. Bow
should this new victory, largely as before, to this unique group of performers. Although it would be unfair to ignore the vision of a director who proves again after his experience with Nuria Espert, that their successes are not the result of chance but of talent.
Photo: Israel Elejalde and Barbara Lennie in the play (Picture of the Abbey Theatre)
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