Seized Truths – Magazine Teatre Barcelona
In a bunker, 15 days. He has entered a companion in his hiding place. She does not remember much. “We can survive if we ration the food.” The radio does not work. Are there other survivors? What happens outside? There is tension, the reproaches of days ago. The audience sees through the lock hole.
After the end It is a piece to look, agonic. Dennis Kelly He plays with a hyperrealistic text like the one who faithfully reproduces an informal conversation, by definition, loaded with jumps. Like this fragment headed by the article.
A psychological thiller within a bunker
The psychological thriller of After the end place the action within a bunker. A boy has brought a co -worker. He tells him that there has been a nuclear explosion and that 15 days will have to be spent inside the hiding place. In order to survive, it will be essential to ration the food. He controls the space and reserves and can arrange them based on the emergency. But this bunker excavated in the garden of the protagonist’s house has no connection to the outside world. The radio is spoiled. Day by day the relationship is contaminated. The reproaches of the previous days are emerging, with more and more virulence.
The director and playwright Marc Rosich I had been trying to premiere Catalan production for years. It will be until April 13 in the room Versus Glòries. The text meant the first success of an author who later became famous with the musical booklet Matildaproduced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The conflict is raised from the zero minute and the cards are uncovering and showing that they were not always supposed. Kelly wrote the text as a result of the 9/11 attacks in New York. Renaissance the fear of an indiscriminate attack on the population. Rosich has preferred to mount it in the 1990’s, although the sense of claustrophobia and obligatory coexistence can refer to the spectators (who look on two sides) in the periods of confinement of the pandemic. Rosich has two actors who refine the subtleties of the text: Meritxell Calvo and Ramon Pujol.
The director warns that the actress’s monologue is often used for auditions. They are replicas for the interpreters. Calvo, in fact, returns to a piece of intrigue and dominion, as already interpreted in Venus in Fur (Although now, with exchanged roles). The stage places both actors in a small metaphorical space: a square of 3.5 meters per side. Rosich had already experienced in small spaces such as the ring of Copi and ocaña.
Marc Rosich has also released a new assembly at La Gleva (March 12-3 23): This is a piece of Gonzalo GómezFinished student of the Institut del Teatre (IT). Hunt It is another closed, oppressive world. The piece on stage, the result of writing practices at IT, maintains the distribution of the previous presentation: Marc Rosich, Nicolás Cardozo and Andrea Castells. Jordi Cornudella Design the “musical pillow” of a plot, located on a stately estate of the Plateau: a young man seeks a collaborator to maintain his business of dog aging and ends up choosing a man who escapes from Madrid of drugs, corruption and sex. Another abducted life, like those that raises, in an obsessive key to After the end. Luckily, there is the epilogue …
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