Pure comedy, one of those in which the characters come and go in constant encounter and disagreement, sneaking and running from each other, at a brisk pace. It is in this spirit that he presents Tom, Dick and Harrythe work with which Nicolás Cabré debuts as a theater directorat the Multitheater Comafi.
In the plot, with touches of the absurd and many more of black humourthere are three brothers played by Mariano Martínez (Tom), gomez bug (Dick) e Yayo Guridi (Harry) in which they will be trapped a tangle of misunderstandings and obstaclesone after the other.
Presented in London in 2005, the game appeals to that universal kind of humor of bodily awkwardness and pun-playing gags, which adapts well, even to an audience with a very wide age range. In the Buenos Aires version, the cast is completed by Mercedes Oviedo, María Valenzuela, Gabriela Sari, Jorge Noya and Rodrigo Raffetto.
the universal plot
Tom (Martínez) and his wife (Oviedo) are about to adopt a child. They have everything organized, thought out and adapted to receive a visit from a woman representing the adoption agency, who will arrive to give the go-ahead to the couple.
The problem is that Dick and Harry live in the same house as the couple, the two least correct types imaginable. They want to help their brother, but their lifestyle is less than ideal and they screw up. It is again. And another.
While Dick is linked to whiskey and mobile phone smuggling, Harry, who works in a hospital, is in possession of a corpse which he intends to sell. illegally to a medical school.
The setbacks and misunderstandings occur relentlessly until they bring the protagonists to a delusional level, where the absurd mixes with detective overtones and relationship problems. In more than one moment, the three brothers They’re kind of close to the Three Stooges dynamic.for the complicities they manage and which feed each other.
While Tom is involuntarily caught up in the imbalance Dicky and Harry are dragging him into, these two not only don’t stop messing up but, as the story progresses, they worsen the situation with almost no return.
Martínez, who is practically always on stage, is out of breath and, like his character, is carried away by the dynamics imposed on him by his imaginary brothers, who form a hilarious duo. You have to keep up with them, in an unpredictable spiral, and it does.
Yayo and Bicho prove once again that they were born for comedy, and move around the stage like fish in water. Even in the few times they don’t match in a scene, It seems that they are connected by an invisible thread. to keep generating gags.
Each with its own style (the more full-bodied Bug for his circus origins and, Yayo, with the almost imperturbable if not barbaric mask), They are ideal for this type of comedy.
The rest of the cast, with María Valenzuela playing her role of stern inspector to the extreme and Mercedes Oviedo as the desperate wife who sees her project collapse, ends up giving shape to this story, with a vintage air and the same freshness needed to relax and reach the goal.
The direction of Cabré, making his debut in the role, bodes wellbecause it manages to sustain an accelerated pace of entries and exits, crossings and clashes of characters, without the story being cluttered and He knows how to make the most of every performer. For those looking for some fun in the best relaxed style, pure fun inside Tom, Dicky and Harry You can find it.
Review: good
Tom, Dick and Harry. With Mariano Martínez, Bicho Gómez, Yayo Guridi and the cast. Director: Nicolás Cabré. Performances Thursday through Sunday at Comafi Multiteatro, Av. Corrientes 1283. Seating: from $4,500.
Source: Clarin
