Journalist: How do you live the return of this musical?
Robert Peloni: That work was a leap in my career. Seven years have passed and today we return after the pandemic and in this crisis, which I consider a gift. My character is a villain, a great physical challenge because I’m on my knees throughout the work, and although they built me a device to protect them from the impact, it involves a lot of aerobic work. I am half human half puppet; I also have constant feedback from the public, he is the only one who breaks the fourth wall and a villain that people love.
Q.: The director pointed out that the play is for adults and that the children enjoy it.
PR: I find it hard to think about theater for kids or adults, I never work in that direction. There are several reading lines for different ages and those of us who grew up with those stories learned to review them. They were terrible stories, like Pinocchio, who in the original died hanging from a tree, they were cruel and as an adult one understands why. There are questions from the past about a single form of love, stereotypes, the princesses in one direction, and when the stories attended a review of the time they took on another relevance. The notion of being different as a gift was added and in this sense we offer on August 7 a relaxed and adapted function for people with different abilities, autism or attention deficit. We did it before and it worked successfully in the sense of heart, not money.
Q.: Shrek talks about inclusion.
PR: Yes, and it does so solidly and lucidly. When I did works by Hugo Midón, a plot line that the adult followed also appeared, the parents even end up having a better time, each one leaves with a story. In the work there is something of bullying, of prejudice, it brings into play something that is more naturalized today, one sees elementary school boys with more relaxed looks. Freaks are not a minority. The work messes with values, physical appearances, something that was reinforced over time. There are many winks, the grandmother, the ugly duckling, all the usual excluded who are not so excluded today. My villain takes away their land and sends them to live in a swamp, while one of the songs says that being different is a gift.
Q.: How do you see the return of great musicals in post-pandemic times and the rise of the dollar?
PR: Being able to offer shows with the quality of a Broadway musical is the exception. Ticket sales started better than expected, and I don’t think that ticket prices per dollar will increase immediately as other things increase, perhaps it will be seen later. But just as the relaxed function is not done to earn money because it requires a lot of work from various specific areas, this is not done exclusively for money. There are many people who did not see it, many come from the interior, when it was announced the networks exploded, so we believe it will go very well, despite everything.
Source: Ambito
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