(By Pedro Fernández Mouján, special envoy) Disassembly talks, discussion and analysis tables, master classes and theatrical performances of winning works from the provincial selections take place in the 37th. edition of the National Theater Festival, which since last Wednesday has been taking place simultaneously in the cities of Catamarca and La Rioja.
The main meeting of Argentine theatricals, marked by a climate of expectation and breadth, takes place with performances to a full house and with subsequent debates that generate the works presented that continue to circulate among the participants of the party.
Yesterday, in the Urbano Giraldi municipal hall of the city of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, one of the two winners of the Santa Fe selective, “Territorio courage”, a commendable and at times impressive acting work by María Victoria Franchi, also an author, was seen. Under the direction of Cielo Pignatta, he manages to establish a text that constantly dialogues between past and present, marking lines of fusion and permanent encounter to think about the current situation also from historical references.
The journey between the past and the present continually comes and goes in “Territorio courage”, both from the problems, the prominence of women in the liberation struggles of a people and the reactionary response that seeks to appease and destroy them fueled by the hegemonic media. . Certain language licenses also enable this coming and going between distant times loaded with the present.
Thus, there are independence leaders who speak with current codes and a television presenter from the colonial era who denigrates the fighters of American emancipation, calling them subversive and extremist, while praising the Spanish.
Franchi, who composes several characters in the different moments of the one-man show, assumes two main characters: Juana Azurduy from her youth, her falling in love and her fight with her partner and other patriots, and a viceregal Viviana Canosa at the head of a television broadcast.
Franchi’s very solid performance reaches moments of striking beauty, such as a very successful choreography with a saber, as well as another moment in which, covered by a huge red cloth, she stands on a table and reaches a capital dimension.
The text does not avoid humor, winks to the audience and, from time to time, breaks the fourth wall to establish games and dialogues that the actress knows how to handle with ease from the stage and keep within the margins of the narrative proposal.
Earlier they saw “Y su oficio?”, a delicate and sensitive clown work that came from Corrientes through the group Pez Dorado performed by Gerardo Barrientos and directed by Alberto Rosatto who, although he knows how to color the scene with sensitivity, does not ends up finding a dramaturgy that the development of the clown gained for itself and that allows establishing the threshold from which to gain new territories.
Another of the proposals that were known yesterday was “La dueña del santo”, a collective work from San Juan of the KTK al Cubo Community, which was set up on a dusty street in Catamarca next to the self-managed cultural center La Osera, in the western area of the city, on a day when the heat gave no respite and which took place while the sun set behind the hills that frame the valley.
The work is performed and developed by actors who emerged from a workshop led by directors Milenka Rupcic and Paula Martin and proposes a theatricality that dialogues with the place where the performance takes place to tell the story of a healing girl, small touches of village life and working on the water problem.
The activity of the National Theater Festival today proposes an exhibition of theatrical books to be held at the Catamarca Cinema Theater, the discussion “25 years of the Theater Law”, in which former general secretaries of the National Theater Institute will take part; the master class “The art of telling stories in dramaturgy”, by Patricia Suárez; and the workshop “The choir, a character in danger of extinction”.
Source: Ambito
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