Alicante ARNICCHES THEATER
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Authorship and direction: Andrés Caminos And Gadiel Sztryk. Company: sutottos
Comedy duos based on contrast with these couples have always existed. The clever, foolish and clownish influences that crashes represent. Based on this, Argentinian company Sutottos offers “Forgiveness”. Guilt and regret with experienced and versatile comedians Andrés Caminos and Gadiel Sztryk and the dramaturgy and direction of both.
Exaggerations and distortions fuel caricatured situations. A happy or unhappy meeting of two childhood friends with their permanent disagreements. Disappointments of yesterday and today. What is there, what is hidden. The joys and harshness of that time, the conditions of these years and today are revealed. You may feel melancholy and want to return to the past.
Memories are coming. Primary school, that first childhood love… Opposite and complementary types wandering around irrational and meaningless. They sharpen verbal confusions and play with words and repetition. Verbal and body language, dialogues and monologues in this performance seen in Arniches. Four years ago they performed another theatrical extravaganza here: “Unstable”.
The forced march creates shrillness and pseudo-joy with violent and unconvincing characters. With an anti-psychological trajectory and heavy comedy. And not because they lack creative and interpretive conditions.
However, all of these encourage some reflections and social and individual questionings through a tragicomic flavor with the irrationality of relationships and the absurd imagination of existence and human behavior. This is a good thing, but what we see and hear is not enough. Much less so in certain ways.
They stand out with a pair of school bags as they listen to “Amigo,” the loving musical theme popularized by Roberto Carlos. What is and what is no longer, or what could be, and the possibility of change. Another very different meeting of the duo is “Veure’ns”, a work that was recently witnessed in this stage space.