Contemporary Writers’ Spanish Theater Exhibition starts this Friday Alicante until November 11 15 assembled. But first, as an appetizer to the nine-day shows, the Alicante performance artist Alex Pena We presented the installation at MACA this Thursday Entertainment Federicoan original suggestion transforms its dramaturgy Garcia Lorca in a playroom with seven amusement machines customized around work of the Granada poet and context where he lives.
With humor and irony-and wanting the public to have a good time: you can play on all machines and most have prizes- Peña, critical vision Lorca Theater and notice commodification and trivialization The legacy of the capitalist system Sometimes it turns culture into a memory.
“Anyone can buy a Lorca keychain “I was in Granada without even reading one of his works,” summarizes the creator of the work. Entertainment FedericoHe said he designed this setup after realizing this. he did not consider himself “capable of seeing a complete work of Lorca”. I decided to create something “from a punk perspective” To show that Fuente Vaqueros’ dramatic works “are not boring” but also to show that “a hundred years later, we can reinterpret it, even criticize it.
at the exhibition Entertainment Federico The welcome piece is the piece that converts banknotes into coins for play in the machines. So spend 5 euros inspired by work So five years passedby Lorca When he returned from New York he was scandalized by capitalismand he died just five years after writing it,” said the creator from Alicante, who lives in Seville, turning the poet into the head of the chamber that brought about change, because since then Some are free, some work with euros.
Machines
Bernarda Alba’s crane It is a mechanical game in which the player can obtain the heroes of this tragedy, Adela’s comb, Pepe el Romano’s original perfume or Bernarda’s autographed fan, as if they existed; blood balls This is a surprise ball machine fake blood bags Leonardo is the groom’s or bride’s lover and the only person mentioned. Blood Wedding; foosball inspired Don Perlimplín’s love for Belisa in his garden The couple in Lorca’s work published in 1929 appear before them with different chants when a goal is scored on this or that field; Yerma, La Nuit This is an Eiffel Tower vending machine condom this alludes to the condom that may well conceal the liberated Yerma enjoying the night in Paris.
The two installations, in the context of Lorca, refer to a group of invisible female artists of the Generation of ’27. Without a hatwhere the player tests their shame by making it even more invisible Invaders of Cadaqués It is an arcade machine with many features. Surreal fight between Dalí and Lorca the poet’s place Castanets from La Argentinita to a painter defending himself flies and one Premiere this helps you pull eggs like bombs.
Movie soundtrack
All installations are accompanied by a soundtrack featuring collaborations with different contemporary independent artists and groups: Rocío Márquez, Pablo Peña and Darío del Moral (Pony Bravo, Fiera); Daniel Alonso (Pony Bravo), Alicia Acuña, The Gardener/Stay P MSRT (Califato ¾), Los voluble and Yunke Junk Preachers. Also, the machine blood balls It contains the original voice of one of the poet’s grandchildren. Laura García-Lorca.
Example can be seen until November 11. Next Thursday, Álex Peña will perform Guided tour at 17.30.. All games are accompanied by a description and a QR code where audience-players can get more background information beyond the fun of playing with literature.