This thursday the 25th we had a three way unipersonales presentation in the school theater. We had first Hayde Caceres, a very renounced actress in Peru, then, a cuer2 presentation with Chiara and "lo mas resistente" and finally the third and last, a 1 hour presentation by xxxx Grosso, an invited argentinian actress.
Hypothesis: what is the most important part for the creation of a uni-personal.
I would like to start with the one I enjoyed the most, Hayde Caceres 's "la madre" which showed a very lomg production and training process to achieve such a wonderful connection between the actress and the audience and to create a link and a relationnin which the audience was totally inmersed in what was happening. The elements she used were just a briefcase and some clothing, acompanied by a dash of rum used to enhance the atmosphere of relief and distress throughout the play. She presented a play in which a cabaret or entertainer, who has reached a certain age in which she cant get a contract, is send to do a presentation saying she was a transsexual and talks about her life and issues.
Th main instrument for this performance was the excellent use of the voice which Hayde has mastered to perfection and then the ability to mantain a certain connection with the audience that allowes her to express a story of deception and harshmoments followed by a life revelation and a scream of forgiveness. Another key feature fir this presentation was the high rythmical interaction and the fast response created by e reactions in the fake audience and through the actress proyected to us.
After this we saw the first propor unipersonal, cuer2 presented "lo mas resistente" which to me was the most incoherent and non related play of them all. It not only lacked precision and relation with the audience but was also very difficult to understand without giving into account the fact that it was very monotonus. Chiara showed a lot of energy and a very intense process in which she worked towards the use of the body and together with the simbolism of e ropes and book she used to performe, she was aboe to loose the connection with the audience, the only parts in which I felt somewhat intrigued by the performace was when she threw e only 3 phrases of the play, which seemed very profound, but still very difficult to process and to get a grasp of the whole idea of the play, you had to inmerse yourself in a lot of analysis because once agaij it was not a self explanatory idea of performance. The basic idea was of a women that has a certain connection with her old house and she gets into a kind of frenesi in which she feels trapped by the memories of the past and the people, because she seems to represent more than one person, that dont allow her to loose free of all perjudicm and link.
Finally xxxxx Grosso presented a very unusual type of play which showed the great difference between the Peruian conventions and those from the Argentinians. She was a woman that explained her life through a series of situations that involved 3 different stages of life, first the one in which she feels love for the first time, then a imaginary son situation followed with the ending of her first marriage, then she falls again, this time for a me kind of guy that was able to comply with all what she needed, in terms of desires i mean, and finally there is a trip to Greece which i really couldnt understand very well.
She presented herself with 5 portions of clothing or elements that were related to each of the stages of life. And in a performance separated in 5 scenes she was able to atract our attention, even after we had seen the first 2 plays and we very mentally tired, she was able to produce mixed opinions and apreciation in between us whcih some appreciated more than others.
Overall i think that there were very clear preferences towards the most conventionsl and word spoken one of the plays which was the one called "La madre" and then the other fall by there own into certain position to which in my opinion was followed by the one by the argentinian actress and finally came "Lo mas resistente" , that even if showed a very good level of energy and body expression through intense preparation, was the most difficult to understand and process and for those reasons, together with the monotonus issue, was the one i enjoyed the most.
As we can see from the presentations, it is not only the process that takes in place for this kind of presentations to be good but also, it is in some ways, the actor or actress, the story and the direction that takes place for it to occur.
Try to use a more formal style for your reviews. You need to be more precise with facts and description of elements and actions, otherwise your views aren't well supported. This review looks like a draft of what could be a good review with a better thought-out direction. Try out re-drafting this and handing it in tomorrow in class. Focus on these questions: What are the elements that made the plays work (or not)? How were the effects created?
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