THE LOVER AND OTHER GAMES OF THE
To counteract the boredom of their relationship after years of marriage, Sarah and Richard took refuge in relationships extramarital affairs. It seems that the only way they can express in everyday life are not allowed. However, the game ends up exhausted
is the approach of the work 's Lover, written in 1963 by Harold Pinter (Nobel 2005) and directed by Iona Weissberg, presented at the Teatro Santa Catarina until July 3.
With a cast composed of Marina de Tavira ( Happy new century doktor Freud, Desdemona's story of a handkerchief , Cappadocia ) and Antonio Rojas ( decomposition, Valladolid Controversy ), the work and its themes charge force for the way they address power relations between partners.
A twist
Professor of the College of Literature Drama and Theatre de la UNAM, has led Iona Weissberg more than twenty works in Mexico and the United States. In an interview, said some details of the staging.
"The work speaks of a very peculiar relationship: an upper middle class couple with very conventional ways, where the Apparently both have a game with an affair that is in crisis. "
According to Weissberg, Harold Pinter is an author apparently easy to work with simple language, short sentences and everyday. However, during the assembly found that is difficult to understand the logic that is written text.
"We spent a lot of that if we tried to follow the intentions or objectives of the characters we were going the pace, then tried to pick up the pace, but it was the style ... He is an author seemingly simple but very sophisticated to mount the stage. It is a text of the most difficult I've encountered, but simpler languages.
The director and actors worked on the analysis of the text to understand the different levels at which it operates. Three: what happens in the story clearly, what is not obvious to the public but for the characters and what would happen if these two events coalesce with no other reason but that theater. That is, there are three logical: the age of the characters and theatrical event beyond these two entities.
"When we were working on text analysis and the approach to how to verbalize the work, their intentions, we start drawing style to the characters. We put the work in a highly stylized, we heading towards that part, began working the composition stage of the work, honing strokes and how to amalgamate the content of what he says Pinter with the way we are giving. "
Although written in 1963, the theme of the work is of great force, referring to relations of power in the current partners. Therefore, the actors, director and set designer Sergio Villegas, decided not to make a social adjustment.
In this regard, they found an article on the theater written by Pinter Header its director, Peter Hall, who stressed the importance of ambiguity in their works. Therefore, the sets and costumes (by Emilio Rebollar) may well respond to the 1960 or which we live, where, according to the director, between the upper middle class are fashionable furniture, clothing and retro music.
"I would think (the theme of the work) is connected with contemporary relationships in certain circles, especially in conservative circles, is a twist on relationships conservative couple. "
Another important aspect of assembly was away from the rankings that put Harold Pinter from a group of playwrights who, during the sixties, he began exploring Martin Esslin so called "theater of the absurd." To Weissberg, there is hardly a similarity between the themes and treatments of Pinter and Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet.
"to approximate Pinter, I have to get rid of all So, grab it as I stick to me, Marina and Antonio, as we stick to us on how to manage the power relations between partners. Who decide what when?, is signed in advance, so do not speak, how the game are changing and the couple goes into crisis when those agreements, implicit contracts, which suddenly changed? "
Everyone has seen her lover today. In his apartment tidy, well decorated, they greet with a kiss on that and fail to touch your lips. When jealousy seem to lean, Richard states: "I'm very well acquainted with a whore, but I have no lover. There is a huge difference. "
Christian Gomez
The work is presented in the Teatro Santa Catarina until July 3. Garden Santa Catarina No. 10, Coyoacan.
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