“Prestame tu sueño” premieres, in which Florencia Aroldi pays tribute to her father Norberto and whose poems play in the dramaturgy. This work tells the story of the reunion between a father and a daughter on stage, something the author never had in life.
“Lend me your dream” by Florencia Aroldi, premieres at the El Victorial Palace.
A daughter and a mother united by theatre to pay tribute to their father. Florence Aroldi wrote “Lend me your dream”, At the request of Maria Ibarreta, where he pays tribute to Norberto Aroldi and whose poems play in the dramaturgy. This work tells the story of the reunion between a father and a daughter on stage, which Florence Aroldi never had in life.
“Lend me your dream” It is directed by Antonio Celico and features performances by Anahi Gadda, Manuel Enrique Longueira and Maria Ibarreta and opens on Sunday, August 4 at the Palacio El Victorial, Piedras 720. We spoke with Aroldialso creator along with Pablo Bonta and Guillermo Ghio of Theatre on Alertwhich arises as a response to the government’s cultural policies, in the words of Aroldi “a systematic plan of cultural genocide that is anything but innocent. However, the theatre resists.”
Journalist: What is the writing like, between fiction, lived experience, autobiography and tribute to your father?
Florence Aroldi: My mother suggested updating my father’s text, which in turn comes from the play “El andador.” So the theme is fatherhood and my father’s text, which he wrote when I was not born, leads to something extra-ordinary, because the word goes far beyond the author or his time, and contains the person, my father. I wanted to meet my father again on stage and this play is the response to a poem he wrote. He knew he didn’t have much time left and he imagines me, who was three years old at the time, until I was 16. When I was 14, I wrote a poem called “Prestame tu sueño” (Press me your dream) as well. This play is not a biodrama, but like everything, it takes elements from real life. It tells of the arrival of Florencia, in her 30s, without a clear profession, working at something she doesn’t like, and receives the arrival of her father. This time Flaco tells her that she is forgetting the names of her characters, the lyrics of her tangos, and infects her, he lends her his dream of vitality. Florencia resists although she manages to have on stage what she did not have in life, while she receives calls to life from her mother. It is a tribute to my father and my mother, who at 28 years old was left with two children, instilling in us the love for him. It is gratitude for his legacy in culture, theater and passion for writing. Parents also teach us with their actions and with their lives.
Q: What was it like to live with the memory of your father and his work?
FA: It was difficult because 45 years ago my father’s memory was clearer than it is today, although it is still clear today, but it was a matter of mourning something that I had no conscious memories of. I reconstructed through the words of the people, friendship and closeness, it was reconstructing through the lyrics of his tangos and his poems, his characters were a bit like him. Being the daughter of someone who stood out in culture is having inherited a surname and after having written I feel that I deserve to see my surname associated with writing.
Q: The question arises “what to do with a father who is absent and present at the same time, theatre”, what else can you say?
FA: There is another big question: if there is something outside the text or if we are a story. We are other people’s narratives. Rewriting is a collective fact that contains multitudes, but it is always a point of view, my gaze, my feeling. It is translating pain into art. A stage is the only place where Florencia says “dad” and he says “what.”
Q: How do poems play?
FA: They arrive at the end in a poetic duel between Florencia and Norberto who create fictional characters because being themselves and saying goodbye is postponed. Here there are characters and dramatic cores, and at the same time I question from today some tango lyrics, its clay, its score and what the Argentine male was. Although my father laughed at himself. I confront him by telling him that I wanted a normal father, not a writer father, and from there we think about what normality is, we talk about duels, the role of the father in culture, the work has a lot of humor and no low blows. Writing it was like constellating from the theater.
Q: What can you say about culture and theatre today?
FA: Culture is alive, culture is resistance, it is fighting against all threats, such as the sociocultural and economic policies of this government that threaten culture and theatre. The situation of the INT, the FNA, Proteatro is critical, there are fewer events, budget, it is a systematic plan of cultural genocide that is anything but innocent. However, theatre resists.
Source: Ambito
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