“By Hecuba…said Shakespeare. That alludes to imagining worlds and everything just because. Playing to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. “That’s theater.” says the actress and author Dana Basso, who directs “Second round”, which will have its author, the Italian, at its premiere Marco Calvani.
It opens on Saturday at Nün Teatro Bar, with performances by Alexia Moyano and Bautista Duarte, and tells of a meeting between two people who seem not to know each other. Apparently. They are a philosophy professor and his favorite student. But nothing is ever what it seems and this is also the story of two people who have nothing to hide from each other, until the moment when they both begin to desire an alternative to reality. We talk with Dana Basso.
Journalist: What interested you about this author to want to direct the work? Neil Labute directed a version, were you able to see it?
Dana Basso: This author talks about a toxic relationship that you cannot get out of. How the same situations, the same texts, the same movements are repeated endlessly… and, as if there were no escape, it goes back and forth, until the final solution that is impossible to reverse is reached.
Q: What themes does the work touch on? The author refers to desire, to something that happens and it is as if it had not happened, or perhaps, it is destined to be repeated.
DB: We play in the cut-out space of a house that is being dismantled. There’s almost nothing left. Just a chair, a stack of books and a lamp. The work shows a relationship that can only exist through the desire to possess the other, to have power over that other, where the same scenes are returned again and again. Almost a fighting ring where a kind of dance is repeated countless times.
Q: What is it like to produce independent theater in this context?
DB: It is never easy and even less so in this sociopolitical context where all economic aid is taken away from us, where they seem to want to end culture. A team of very valuable people comes together, dedicates their time, their soul, hours and hours without receiving anything other than the satisfaction that comes from doing theater.
Q.: How did you adapt “Neither broken nor unstitched,” of your own?
DB: I wanted to tell the story of three women in their 60s, I wanted to see women of that age on stage. They had a group with which they sang boleros and they get together, in a singing marathon that takes place in a theater, after many years to save the radio of their small town in the province of Buenos Aires. Each one with her own problems, they meet again in the dressing room of a theater. It has been 40 years since they experienced a similar situation and a lot of life has happened.
Q: What topics do you cover? Can you find any point of contact with “Second Round”?
DB: Points of Contact: *We are what we decide to do with what we have* Philip and Sophia cannot get out of this sick and destructive relationship. Mara, Ro and Dalila decide what they will do with the years they will live from now on.
Source: Ambito
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