Carmen Polo, satire and inheritance in Tantarantana
Until February 9th Tantarantana Theater recovers Lady dictatorshipa company creation Picohues Hermanas. Performed by Josep Orfila and Lluki Portas, who also assumes the direction, the show is a reflection on the inheritances of Francoism in today’s society. To do this is based on a satirical portrait of Carmen Polowife of dictator Franco, in the purest revised style of the heart.
“The figure of Carmen Polo is the perfect excuse to talk about the inheritance that Franco’s morality has left us in this country,” says the director, and adds: “Above all, it helps us to address the concept of hunts: hunting From Carmen to her necklaces, Franco’s hunting to Carmen, the hunting of the upper classes and even the far -right hunts for vulnerable people. “
A reflection on hunts and inheritance
The company proposes a reflection on the inheritance of a dark age through humor, criticism and aesthetic that captures the contradiction between the superficiality of a heart magazine and the crudeness of the story he tells. This approach allows a dramaturgical game that exposes how the past still lives in the less obvious corners of the present. “What is Spain? The grandfather’s estate. This responded to Franco’s granddaughter when she was a kid. Fifty years later, this farm is still the same families, and the hunting is more fashionable than ever, “says the company.
Lady dictatorship recovers audiovisual resources that they had already used in Excalibur and other dead animals storiesand delves into a format that mixes humor, surreality and tragedy. According to Portas, fascism is “a monster that is in corners where you are least waiting for you, in steel tips, in the mouth of a police officer who criticizes your clothes or even in the little one Carmen Polo that we all carry inside. “
The work also addresses episodes of historical violence, such as the murders of Sonia Resalvo, Lucrecia Pérez and William Agullóthat are dressed up on stage like hunts of Carmen Polo. This story is brought to the limit of satire with the invention of fictional magazine Holi! and a tone of tragicomedy that contrasts with the rawness of the narrated events.
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