The next Tuesday 14 March the show debuts at the Maipo Theater Consentby the English playwright Nina Rainewith directed by Carla Calabrese and Mela Lenoirtogether with an exceptional cast composed by Diego Gentile, Mela Lenoir, Iride Mockert, Daniela Pantano, Bruno Pedicone, Alejandra Perlusky and Sebastián Suñé.
Success of the English and European theater program, Consent It will have two shows a week, Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 7.30pm.
The original premiere was in London in 2017, at the National Theater under the title of Consent. It was met with rave reviews in Britain, with What’s On Stage saying, “It’s a brilliantly intelligent play, shooting its sparks of wit and insight in many directions at once.”
controversial and audacious
modern and controversial Consent is a play that generates debate among men and women for its controversial and disturbing plot and its bold language.
It talks about what we hide, topics we prefer to keep quiet about, justice that never comes, helplessness, love and heartbreak.
The play poses a moral dilemma that challenges cultural mandates, the value of truth and professional ethics, the depth of human bonds and the harshness of the legal system with wit and precise touches of humor.
Award-winning author Nina Raine places us as judge and jury in a work that captures, exposes, moves and deeply explores human bonds, love, law and betrayal in a clever, disturbing and timely storyline that invites viewers to delve into the intricate journey of the human soul, in the grays that inhabit and that make us see up close the fine line between good and evil and the role we play in judging.
plot summary
A “consent” is the expression or attitude with which a conscious person allows or accepts something. In this case a woman accuses a man of raping her, she claims that everything has been agreed and there are no witnesses to the fact in question. It’s her word against her word.
The matter will be heard in court, but the final outcome will depend on how clever the lawyers are in a win-or-loss game.
Consent it questions the truths and half-truths surrounding rape and the judgments that arise from it, both in the courts and in society itself.
The show features two rape stories: one is adjudicated in court and the other in the privacy of a married couple.
But this story isn’t just about rape, because what does it mean to consent? How much fear can influence consent? Why is a parallel trial set up for the victim? Saying no doesn’t mean saying yes? And if the lack of consent arises within a couple or a marriage? How are infidelity and betrayal justified?
Nina Raine presents two stories of rape in a skilful scenic and theatrical parallelism: one story is judged in court and the other within four walls and in the intimacy of a marriage where a lawyer defends a rapist.
The author
Raine is a renowned English theater director and playwright, distinguished by her deeply human pieces that reflect on the dysfunctions of bonds and the challenges we face as a society. With her language he manages to grasp in her works, as in life, a balance between drama and comedy.
In 2000 she won the Channel Four/Jerwood Space Scholarship for Young Directors, which trained her as a director at the Royal Court Theatre. Some of her works were Rabbit, Tribes, Tiger Country, Stories and Bach & Sons.
Nina Raine has confirmed that she will be traveling to Argentina to attend the local premiere of Consent.
Source: Clarin
