“Nothing is more similar to life than boxing. Who in life has not received a blow and was left sitting on the canvas? Who didn’t have to get up? Who didn’t have a hard time getting up?” he wonders Luciano Castro in the interview with Scope regarding his one-man debut “Fall (and get up).”
This is a work directed by Mey Scápola, written by Patricio Abadi and Nacho Ciatti and premieres at Chauvin Mar del Plata on December 28. It is an intimate and biographical journey through the rise and fall of a talented boxer who must nevertheless wage a tough battle against his demons. Castro He plays Junior, a boxer detained in a prison on the Argentine coast who, on the eve of the verdict, confesses the dark spots of his life.
Success, decline, fatherhood, love, mandates, resilience are just some of the themes that the work addresses, between emotion and humor. We talk with Castro.
Journalist: How did the idea appear in you together with Mey Scápola?
Luciano Castro: The idea actually appears through Mey Scápola who comes one day to visit me, like so many others, on the beach. There, talking about work, he told me when he was going to do something of my own and when he was going to encourage me to do a sole proprietorship. I basically told her that if she was with me, who is a great director in the genre, I would do it. Waiting for him to say no and he said yes. And here we are. Then Nacho Ciatti, Pato Abadi appeared and we put together this beautiful show.
Q: How did it mutate from the germ of the idea to the work? How did you choose the authors?
LC: We started thinking with Mey, I shared my information with him. About my experiences in boxing, from my childhood, and then Ignacio Ciatti, who is a very good friend of Mey, appeared, began to record me, deduct my taxes, and Pato Abadi arrived, who joined in for the writing. This sole proprietorship was born.
Q: What does boxing mean in your life?
LC: This is not an autobiography, let that be clear, the only thing I did was tell some of my moments so that the authors could later write the story, the play. Boxing is a big part of my life. Like everything you’ve learned since you were a child, you don’t choose it directly. When I realized, like in any house they watch football, the only thing I talked about and watched was boxing. My father and my grandfather, the only thing they talked about and watched was boxing. On Saturdays or Sundays when everyone went to watch a soccer game, I went to watch boxing. It is a choice like swimming can be. It is something very important in my life and I also believe a lot in the philosophy and doctrine that boxing gives to everyone who practices it. The same for life.
Q: What journey does the work take for the boxers, are they only Argentinian?
LC: Yes, only the great, great Argentine boxers are in the work. One specifically who is Junior’s idol (the one-man character) who has his idol; but then all our boxing glory is named and they are part of it at all times, no one is avoided. On the contrary, they nourish the work.
Q.: There was a boom in works about boxers last year and now yours is added, what do you attribute it to? What is the link between society and boxing?
LC: The most concrete thing, if there is an analogy, is life and boxing. It is such for that. In fact the work is called “Fall (and get up)”, I don’t know who hasn’t fallen in life and hasn’t had to get up. He who hasn’t been through it is a lucky one. In fact Junior is a father, Junior has a mother, Junior has sisters. Nothing that doesn’t happen to anyone sitting watching the play. Here we did not look for something pretentious, we looked for something that generates empathy in people. Nothing is more similar to life than boxing. Who in life has not received a blow and was left sitting on their butt on the canvas? Who didn’t have to get up? Who didn’t have a hard time getting up? We also know that many have not gotten up, so there is no more concrete.
Q: How do you see theater and culture today?
LC: It seems to me that art and culture are eternal, they are infinite. Better times or worse times may happen but they will never disappear. You can’t take away art or culture, they are things that people need so I don’t even discuss that. I’m sure it will be like that and then I’m also sure it will be a great summer. There are going to be many good proposals in Mar del Plata, including ours, and I like that too. Having a good theater circuit encourages people to go and see, to want to see and listen. Art and culture forever and ever, has to do with something healthy even. So there’s no arguing with that.
Source: Ambito
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