“There was a lot of vitality in Frida Kahlo, she was passionate, curious, she liked people, art, animals, nature, love. I try to play among those thin lines of joy, celebration, pain, loneliness, anguish and frustration of not carrying out the desire for maternity, ” says Laura Azcurra, who plays the famous artist in “Frida alive life”, Unipersonal who toured 28 countries and arrives at El Picadero.
Under the direction of Julia Morgado and written by the Mexican author Humberto Roblesdebuts on February 20 and will be presented on Thursdays. The work, set during a celebration of the Day of the Dead, transports the public to the privacy of Fridawho reflects on his life while preparing a table for his guests: Diego Rivera, Rockefeller and Trotsky We talked with Azcurra
Journalist: What is special of this single -person and what is your peculiarity?
Laura Azcurra: Composes and shares Frida’s life as if it were a puzzle that one completes. We know many things in Frida’s life but the unipersonal, so well written, finishes configuring the totality. For example, how was his physical situation, his life crossed by the love of Diego Rivera, his relationship with death, his passion for painting. The work draws a chronological line with concepts based on true events. The public who comes to see it ends up understanding the depth of the life of this huge artist.
Q.: What is Frida’s reflection on life while preparing the table for your guests?
THE: Reflect on his link with the disease, with death, his hunger for life, his passion, his relationship with Diego. These reflections between food and the tribute to the dead with the beautiful liturgy that Mexico has to honor them.
Q.: What can you say about the bond he had with his guests that night: Diego Rivera, Rockefeller and Trotsky?
THE: I went to investigate biographies and documentaries. Frida met Diego when he was a painter, they were 22 years apart, after the wonderful revolution of Mexico, when he ponders the artists and assigned places to paint, Diego Rivera and other muralists choose them to decorate all the walls of the palaces of DF. Rivera has to paint Frida’s high school. She knew him, felt admiration for everything he represented and for being one of the most important muralists in the world. It was to know that qualified voice of Diego. And then they know each other, they delve into these militant comrades of communism, who pursued free love without possessions, trying to carry that in the challenge to be free, although they did not achieve it at all. There were problems in that opening, contradictions that appeared following their activism. His very vision of life through communism and non -possession wanted to transfer it to his private life but cost them. Over time they found the way but they always had a delicate link for that. With Rockefeller and Trotsky there are small anecdotes that complete Frida’s life.
Q.: What moments do you travel, from your childhood, love and accident?
THE: The pole, at 6 years, affected her right leg and left her with a renguera. At 17 he had the accident while traveling in collective by returning home in Coyoacán, when a tram sent the collective and causes the tremendous accident for all passengers. She crossed her abdomen. The first complicated situations of rebuilding were those since the column is broken with a collective tube that goes through it completely. That generated a harmful situation in its uterus, so it had many abortions and could not generate. And that right, skinny and weak leg always broke into 11 pieces, leaving Frida prostrated for 3 months. She recounts that moment with detail and there we understand why the bone appears in her paintings, the broken, the dead, I live it, she said “I do not paint dreams, I paint my reality.” He was brave when he wanted to share his essence, opening and showing wounds after the accident. I did not have so much detail about that and it was very enlightening and empathetic to know.
Q.: How did you compose Frida?
THE: With a lot of research and respect, to compose it I asked Frida permission. I never made a historical character, it is a big challenge because we have an image of it, we know that there are videos interacting but without audio, we do not know his voice. I documented a lot, I mainly wanted to compose that important physical situation in his life. She said “I am used to living with the pains, they are part of me, if I did not feel them would cease to exist.” She learned to live from the first moment, I tried to understand what a body does not respond as one expects, with permanent pain, in her column in her leg and what that represents in the body. I looked for a delicate composition that was not exaggerated. We considered with the director that Frida had to speak in Mexican so I started to take classes to neutralize the Buenos Aires tune and with a huge permission to an entire country. That is why we act with respect and humility. This is a Frida version, we could do it in Buenos Aires but it made me a lot of noise, I was going to move away more so I took the job of composing with Mexican accent, Frida is Mexico, Honra Mexico. Salma Hayek made a spectacular film but I questioned that it was in English having Spanish -speaking actors. Still universalized Frida’s art but Mexicanity had to be.
Q.: What adjectives describe Frida?
THE: There was a lot of vitality in her, she was very passionate, curious, she liked people, art, animals, nature. He liked love, from a young age he had an anarchist boyfriend and moved in passion ties, ideas, that at the historical situation in Mexico was enhanced. I have a common point with Frida, we are curious and handles. Intense sadness also appears. With the operations he was a lot in the bedside, alone, when someone was going to visit it, he did the impossible to retain those visits and became more creative, invented words, plays, so that whoever was with her had a good time. That was the Frida actress, charismatic, magnetic. I try to play among those thin lines of joy, celebration, pain, loneliness, anguish and frustration of not carrying out the desire for maternity. There were the trips, which took her out of her intimate circle, from Diego’s infidelities and her indifference to many things.
Source: Ambito
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