Joan Vázquez premieres his new musical ‘Neon Hand’
The Espai Texas theater premieres a new musical: Neon Hand. It is about a new show directed by Rose Battle and with music created by Joan Vazquezwho debuts as a composer with Fran Arráez. The show, starring Ray Borrell, Xavier Masters and Vázquez himself, will have a season from October 6.
Neon Hand is a show that narrates two parallel journeys: a physical one, with Anton and Alain arriving in New York to present a musical in a night club in the city, and another, much more internal, that explores the complexity of the creative process. Through mysterious encounters and the fast-paced atmosphere of the city, the story follows these two creators as they try to find inspiration to write a new work and confront their own personal dynamics as a lyricist and composer. It is a musical with touches of comedy, suspense, cabaret and noir novel, which plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction, inviting the audience to reflect on issues such as human relationships, artistic creation or the different masculinities
“Writing a musical is a collaborative process, in which music, libretto and lyrics must end up being part of a whole”, explains Joan Vázquez: “For a lyricist and a composer to understand each other, they must like, they have to get to know each other, do things together, spend the occasional sleepless night together… to see life in the same way. But they also have to give each other space, and living together costs money.” “I was also interested in writing about the different masculinities at play framed in this scenario”, comments the author: “The situation of the characters has allowed me to explore dynamics between two men between whom, apparently, sensuality is not a factor “.
A musical that swings between reality and fiction
Neon Hand is inspired by the story of a trip that the team of Paquito Forever to present the show at the actor’s club Alan Cumming in New York’s East Village. But, as its author suggests: “How much fiction is there really in our lives?”. Vázquez explores how the creators’ personal and emotional experiences merge with the stories they write and questions the extent to which reality is an extension of the authors’ fictions. Through the experiences of the protagonists of the musical, the work invites us to reflect on self-fiction as a means to explore one’s own limitations, insecurities and internal conflicts. The blurred line between what is real and what is created suggests that, in many cases, art not only reflects reality, but also constructs or transforms it.
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