“Freeshop” by the Uruguayan author Victoria Vera with a staging by the artists’ collective BESA and “Second nature” by the Finnish playwright Pipsa Lonka, directed by the duo Cecilia Meijide and Diego Rosental, will premiere at El Cultural San Martín. The third work to be launched is “In this crazy world, on this brilliant night”, by Brazilian Silvia Gómez directed by Nayla Pose, at Estudio Los Vidrios.
Lava Skin indicated: “All these texts think about how to survive, or why survive. These narratives of the end of a certain world appear here and there, coinciding in time and space, beyond the distance. These works do not give an answer, nor should they, but they come to show us that in collaborative forms of survival there is action, the verb, the common language that keeps us in dialogue and promises, without claiming results, a possible future from where to be reborn”.
Tomás Masariche from the artists’ collective BESA expressed: “We seek to have a two-way relationship with written dramaturgy. We use this text as one more element but not as the main one. Victoria Vera’s text has many suggestive images and addresses areas of the absurd or humor. It is also chaotic and so is our creation, in that sense, our talks with the author flowed: ´if you want to set the text on fire´, he enabled us. That allows the scenic action to prevail.”
“It portrays a time crossed by the conflict of the paper mills, which prompted us to do a lot of research work,” Masariche said about the work. “Television material appeared where the leading role was played by the neighborhood assemblies of both countries. The members of Piel de Lava suggested that there was a relationship between the logic of the assemblies and the construction of the material as an assembly and debate. We then talked about what we wanted and what procedures we could use so that the work could be built from there. For the staging we got rid of the automatic creation and, although there was little time, we put the artistic power of the team ahead”.
“The work I set my sights on deals with violence against women but breaks traditional approach schemes” considered the director Nayla Pose. “Irony is allowed and one runs from the hyperdramatic zone. The story, inspired by a real femicide that occurred in 2015 in a coastal city in Brazil, is reconstructed by the author, who chooses to tell it with a classic structure as a traditional story, but at the same time intervened by fictional consciousness. This opens the dialogue between fiction and reality. The artifice is revealed. I was interested in the conception of Lava Skin around the ´Map of our treasure. Cartographies of our survival”, with three works that hover around a certain sense of collapse, both in Latin America and in Finland. From north to south, each work wonders about survival strategies and fissures”.
Fluorescent Season is a project produced by the Fluorescent Platform and the International Dramaturgy Festival, in co-production with the Municipality of Montevideo (Uruguay), Amigos da Arte, Off Produções Culturais (Brazil), TINFO (Finland), with the support of Centro Cultural San Martín , Study Los Vidrios and Cultural Patronage.
Source: Ambito
David William is a talented author who has made a name for himself in the world of writing. He is a professional author who writes on a wide range of topics, from general interest to opinion news. David is currently working as a writer at 24 hours worlds where he brings his unique perspective and in-depth research to his articles, making them both informative and engaging.
