"Art" at the Theatre
The Teatre El Musical (TEM) of Valencia hosts from Thursday 20 January to 13 February representations of 'Art', the first version in Valencian Yasmina Reza's text has been translated into 35 languages \u200b\u200band has become the work of a living author most represented on the world stage.
Directed by Joaquim Candeias, this co-production of the City of Valencia, Albena Teatre and Tornaveu, born as "a comedy pure "to" darker tints, which are related to the human condition and their insecurities and fears. "
Candeias This was stated during the presentation of the work, with managers and TEM Tornaveu, Joan Carles Daudert, and Albena, Toni Benavent, the Councillor for Culture of the City of Valencia, Mayrén Beneyto, and Carles Alberola actors and Alfred Picó, which make up the division next to Valencia Carlos Sanjaime.
Through a seemingly debate around the painting acquired by one of three men united by a friendship of more than 15 years, the book addresses their concerns about "jealousy, abandonment, fear of aging, fear death, lack of recognition "and, ultimately, on" really human things. "
The director explained that this picture, a blank canvas, is a" symbol "that each character plays the way it is being and what they "want or need to see", which provides different "world views competing between friends, between men."
In fact, stressed that this show is one of the "very few existing works on friendship men beyond football or criticism of their women, "and that, moreover, is written by a woman." It is the vision of a woman on the relations between men "stressed Candeias, whom he considers" a challenge and a privilege "to reflect its interpretation of" spirit "of this contemporary classic with the help of Albert's work, Picó and Sanjaime.
In his opinion, this book, despite its huge commercial success," in the background may not be is rated. "Thus, praised the" great intelligence "and" brilliance "with which the author is able to gather a sense of humor" as a mechanism of survival of the individual to "distance himself from his own drama, with the "comic" characters, "defined by its rigidity, its automatic, for curl upon themselves and ruled the world."
"Combining these two concepts, a sense of humor and comedy, is done in a bright and hope have been more or less in height, has ruled.
Alberola
Candeias and have alluded to the "painful trance" that cross the three characters in this "brilliant comedy." Moreover, he also Albena Teatre artistic director has said that when the function ends, is "out" of everything in his mind throughout the work, but "no say" in the mouth of his character.
To Alberola, Yasmina Reza's " a teacher "in the" shared secret "which is the theater, for its ability to" show so much of the human soul "through a blank box." This work gives me extreme pain while the public laughs, which is a great skill by the author in the sense of showing, through the pain of its characters, the recognition by the viewer, "who" share laughs and see something that gets the stage, not himself, "he explained.
For his part, Alfred Picó has said the" fear "that initially faced the proposal to interpret" the first written text "that gives life from his beginnings as an actor, given his long career with Valencian artists.
has also claimed that "falls within the normal range" that plays on this scale are interpreted in Valencia. "Things you can do in Valencia, I think Enough of that, sometimes, we talked and worked in Valencia for a while it seems that we should be asking for forgiveness, and vice versa, things should be done with complete normality, "he stressed.
Alberola also relies on This version of 'Art' translated into Valencia, the work of Fernando Gomez and Rodolfo Grande Sirera, shows that Valencian "is a living language, powerful and connected with many people who are eager to find texts in Valencia on stage and they can be enjoyed. "
In the same vein, Mayrén Beneyto has argued that" culture, and particularly the theater, must also be in an adaptation and a translation in Valencia. "The language we have to practice it and hear it," concluded the mayor.
Carles Alberola, Alfred Picó and Carles Sanjaime in "Art".