A new edition of “The Wonderful Things” the English work that was launched in 2022 with Peter Lanzani as narrator of the first Argentine version and quickly sold out. Florencia Otero She will be the one who plays the role of narrator of the show during the summer season at the Multiteatro starting on Friday, January 3.
They were protagonists Lali González, Franco Masini, Andy Kusnetzoff, Cande Vetrano, Victorio D’Alessandro and now it’s time to Knoll under the direction of Mey Scapola. Besides, “The wonderful things”of Duncan Macmillan and Johnny Donahoe has been traveling through Argentina and neighboring countries to bring this experience to more viewers of this theatrical experience that has been on the bill for more than 3 years.
“A list of all the wonderful things in the world. Everything that is worth living for.” This is the mission of the character who stars in the story. With humor and emotion, a moving story, the work aims to collectively build a luminous view of life. It is presented on Thursdays and Fridays at 10:30 p.m. We talk with Knoll.
Journalist: What attracted you to the work as a challenge to agree to do it?
Flor Otero: First of all, I was very interested that it was by the same author of the work that I had been doing. He is an author who covers all deep, interesting and necessary topics. And it blows my mind. And on the other hand, it seemed like a new challenge to do my first one-man show.
Q: What does it mean to play this character after so many actors and actresses have done it? How do you add your mark?
FO: The text is so well done that it fits any body. Doing it after so many narrators implies, first of all, seducing the viewer to see it again or finally encouraging those who doubted it. And on the other hand, add your imprint and your poetics but without the work ceasing to be what it should be. With my director, Mey Scapola, we look for a personal stamp to appear in each rehearsal but also assuming that there are things that have already worked and are proven.
Q.: How was working with the director Mey Scapola, the same in all editions?
FO: I think he was in almost all the productions of the play, so it gives me an enormous level of security to know the knowledge he has. She is pragmatic, clear, direct and understands the work very well. That makes the job much easier and more enjoyable.
Q.: Why do you think it works with the public and continues to fill people?
FO: There are people who saw it many times and who bring friends and family. I think that’s what happens, a word of mouth of ‘you need to see it’. Then, the work suggests that no one is far from feeling these things. And much more in these times. That makes people identify immediately and come out with that same optimism that the character has when facing the world.
Q: How do you see this moment in theater in particular and culture in general?
FO: Uniting more and more to support what for many is truly essential. The culture. Always reinventing ourselves. Theater explains the world to us a little better and gives us tools to understand. It gives us some truths and possible forms or paths. You have to fight to hold each space.
Source: Ambito
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