Designed by Luis Garcia Berlanga Executioner after a lawyer friend told him berlanguian adventures: the lawyer participated in the execution a woman and executioner convicted of murderaffected (assuming due to the fact that her victim was a woman)A sedative had to be injected. and drag him to the place of execution. Sixty years after its premiere, the film The indisputable masterpieces of the Valencian writermaintains the power of thoughts about how societies and the customs and norms they impose on them (no matter how unjust) can oppress the individual. It goes on to suggest so much, it talks so much about us and the way we organize ourselves that, Black Mirror decided to reread the movie to warn us about “sleepless”.back in Spain, wanting to lose his head“. The appointment will begin this Friday at the Teatro del Soho-CaixaBank (performances on January 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22).
Angel Calvente, The head of the legendary Malaga puppet company has been “very enthusiastic” to adapt Berlanga since 2013, but the project ended up in the drawer. He resumed his desire almost two years ago and is now proud of the result: “The Executioner’s first adaptation for puppets.. I don’t count the gestures of the players [algo fundamental en el cine de Berlanga, apoyado decisivamente en sus intérpretes]it’s harder to reach the public, you have to do it with lights and shadows… But I think we did it”, states the director.
About nine months for four months of dramaturgy and patient, creative and ingenious creation. fifteen puppets used the equipment Black Mirror raising his own very theatrical adventure that respects and honors the original but also takes it into a different realm. “We couldn’t make a movie on stage. I wanted a very traditional show, a lot of drama, where the stage moves and the projections make the contribution they need to contribute,” says Calvente. Meanwhile, the puppets’ manipulators (the four: the director’s son Laín Calvente; José Vera, Carlos Cuadros and Susana Almahano) do not hide in the darkness of the black theater: “They are the livelihood of the show,” says the director. They even engage in dialogue with puppets at some points in the show.
living place
The story, of course, is as follows: Jose Luisemployee of a funeral home, welcoming in love, a retired professional executioner and his daughter with whom he has an affair. Having to get married and looking for a home, the young man applies for his father-in-law’s vacant position and believes that he will never have to practice his profession. Of course, the message goes far beyond the defense against the death penalty with which the film has been identified for decades, and continues. Berlanga:”That house, that floor symbolizes the cruelty of society; the state you have to achieve in order to live in quotes. And it’s the same today: a lot of people are mortgaging their lives because, what others will say, having a better car, going on vacation. Green Nose or to have a house with a pool Victory CornerAnd they are not happy at all. “They spend their lives yawning about things that may and may not happen,” she says. bald.
Don’t forget Angel Calvente when you first see Executioneras a teenager:Wow, what a beast!“, he reacted. Today, decades later, he is confident that his classic version will reach and contribute to today’s new audiences, the youth of the 21st century. pessimism and torn creatures, so Spain “dark and dark, It may never be revealed that men are men and women are women, and that workers are at the bottom of the social stratum.
Ángel Calvente and Antonio Banderas, another duo
The Executioner is the second co-production of El Espejo Negro with the Teatro del Soho-CaixaBank space created and managed by Antonio Banderas. Their previous adventure together was the somewhat daring Cris, who won the Max Award for Best Children’s Show, an exciting and tremendous approach to transgenderism for all audiences. There seems to be a nice harmony between Ángel Calvente and Banderas. “Antonio called me to cooperate, I told him the story of Cris and he said he would take care of it. Same as el verdugo”, recalls the person in charge of El Espejo. Negro is obviously glad that an artistic and social reference like Antonio Banderas is interested in and aligned with his interests and artistic concerns.