May they play, play – Aeolian Theater

After directing and writing for a group of actors and actresses with a mental health diagnosis, treating the topic of difference, not of the disease, it has become more and more important for me. We live in an age when this issue has a significant social impact and put the focus on the care And not so much in criticism is a mechanism that moves me to create. My way of writing- marked by poetry- drinks from my literary and theatrical references, and seeks a way to sublimate sadness, personal hell and the disconnection of oneself and the world.

This project wants to be a emphatic project With the dark side and everything that derives from it. When I work near these performers, I stop seeing the difference as a threat. I lose identity, in a process of awarenessto connect through the theater with different people and of high complexity. And the actors do it too. And the public too.

I like that this craft uses to bring people closer to the world from opposite ends. That the impossibility will generate joy because the impossibility is rich and to love what is not given to us is an art.

I did not work with argument because I was interested in the lack of coherence to talk about a convulsive society that does not follow any logic. This lack of coherence, which is also madness, seems interesting to me because it approaches uncertainty. I like to think that the happiest human being is the one that holds the most uncertainty and stretching this thread.

From here, and honoring the title of the show, we always created from the game. I made the most of the potential of each of the participants and made it grow according to their skills: they sang opera, knew languages, played instruments, worshiped recite. I put many of their wishes and requests in the montage and worked with demand and love until they turned them into artistic material.

I like theater and writing because they allow me to enter more subtle perceptions of reality. A reality that is not imposed but encountered from the desire. I think this is the most genuine way to convey that we have at a time when transmitting is vitally important. These actors pierce the structure of reality and make art acquire meaning. And they do it from desire. And they transmit, really, without false authenticities. To me this contributes, without a doubt, to make existence a more understandable place.

My education and altruism towards the most vulnerable groups have pushed me, in recent years, to link my creative projects with this need.

It is also likely that, in essence, this dialogue with the reality and the desire to continue moving forward will be sustained to be able to offer the world everything that the world has previously offered to me.

Berta Giraut