Journalist: To what do you attribute the repercussion of the work?
Asher Gelmann: When I wrote it, my husband felt that on the one hand he didn’t want it to be seen because it was based on what happened with our marriage, but on the other hand he wanted it to be successful. It is that most do not want others to know about the mistakes in our private lives, they feel ashamed, and this work tells an uncomfortable truth. It’s successful because the audience sees the mistakes of others in those conversations, and perhaps reflects back.
Q.: What are the themes?
AG: Honesty and listening to others what we don’t dare to say ourselves. We tend to fear about what we think, we believe that thinking incriminates us as if it were an action, and I am specifically talking about the fantasy of including a third party in the couple. Thinking is not the same as doing. When we have a feeling we think that it will not be well received and we do not express it. When it comes to relationships, we fear having difficult conversations because we don’t want to hurt the other.
Q.: How was the writing process and what was the search?
AG: When I set out to write a play I thought of the most dramatic thing that had ever happened to me and the moment when I got involved with another man outside of my partner appeared. He had minimized my feelings and I thought that by not telling the whole truth I could move on. That dishonesty nearly ended my marriage. I wrote believing that the guilt I felt was falling in love with someone else and in the process I discovered that the guilt was that I was being dishonest. What I experienced would never have happened if all the characters had been transparent, in fact there would be no work.
Q: Is there a queer dramaturgy?
AG: Just as society is not built for us and we grow up breaking those barriers, the queer artist looks at society from the outside, we are not part of it, we are always aliens, strangers to walk among the “straight”. As a queer I stand back and see society from a different perspective. We offer an outsider’s view of the human experience. The work is a free man in his relationship with other men but it is not a queer work, it is universal. I feed on three characters to tell this story.
Q.: How were the versions in other countries?
AG: I never imagined this success, I premiered it hoping that my mother would like it, and then in different markets it interested me because it is someone telling the truth. These are difficult conversations that we believe others are having and never us. You have to be brave to have this conversation and that’s why it touches so many people around the world. We live in a world more used to stealing and lying, we do not believe there is another way. Here we wonder what happens when that communication and honesty is lost, it is to fight because there seems to be no other way but there are no excuses.
Source: Ambito
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