ALICANTE MEDITERRANEAN FOUNDATION
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Text and address: Mary Velasco
A word of Greek origin gives its name to the Madrid company Pecado de Hybris, which refers to the excesses, violations that fit the dramaturgical concept of a production not based on classical schemes. Technical, narrative and dramatic sources are used in the stage actions with the visual effects of the actor and the symbolic character. A clear dramaturgy using different artistic languages. They are based not on the internalization of the role, but on an external point of view with a certain vulgarity.
All of this gets more or less attention depending on each show. The trend towards large doses of imitation and sensationalism is not new. The overly serious and compelling pursuit of originality often seeks attention at all costs. In this sense, we have a pandemic and the Contemporary Writers Exhibition cannot avoid it.
Self-purging playwright and director María Velasco’s exaggerated title “I cut off men on earth” includes notable aspects such as emotional, sexual and ecological violence. This work does not fall within the realm of economic exploitation that destroys the laws of nature, but the video footage with the flames in the forest makes sense at the end.
We see bloated babies and somewhat anxious monologues and a mosaic of scenes taking place. Some are expendable. Among other duties, actor, dancer and choreographer Joaquín Abella plays a bare tree that actress Paula Ruiz from Alicante embraces with devotion. She is a feminist character, suffering from child depopulation, psychological abuse, and prostitutes for economic reasons. Naked in front of the auditorium. is it free? “Nudes should never be paid,” he says.
Miguel Ángel Altet, Fran Arráez (la Toñi) and Beatrice Bergamín make up the rest of a cast that puts Max to task in a play that won the best playwriting award.
Source: Informacion
