“Still is a comedy-drama about bonding and the meeting between a father and daughter who haven’t seen each other for a long time“, tells Clarion Florencia Naftulewicz, author and protagonist of the work which will be premiered this Friday 2 February at the NÜN Teatro Bar.
The cast is limited, but strong and above all very promising. This time only two people will occupy the stage. The playwright will be accompanied by the popular Miguel Angel Rodriguez. Both will have the task of immersing viewers in this moving story.
After the death of his wife, Renzo (Rodríguez) isolates himself from reality. In other words, he remains “immobile” in that situation. Two years after the start of imprisonment, his daughter Julieta (Naftulewicz) decides to stay with him for a weekend and finds a worse situation than she expected.
-The work presents a situation with which it is very easy to empathize, because it is part of life itself…
-No doubt. We’ve done dress rehearsals with audiences and what we get is exactly what you say. The work passes through you as a spectator. We are all parents or we are all children. It’s a bond that’s on our minds a lot. It is inevitable that the viewer thinks about their own connection. This is also the objective of the work.
Florencia Naftulewicz and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez in “Quieto”.-How did you work on the humanization process of your character, to be able to reawaken that closeness with the viewer?
-It was a process of meeting and playing, which was also carried out very well by Francisco Lumerman, the director. He knows how to guide the actors very well, so that the situation is as lively as possible. Truly Our goal is to tell that this father and this daughter meet there, in that real time.in that situation, and that the viewer can accompany us on that journey.
Share the stage with a great man
-What was it like working with an actor with Michelangelo’s career?
-I tell it and I get emotional. It was a surprise when they told me that they were very interested in the text and wanted to join. For me it was incredible. And then I met, further away, an actor with a lot of experience, an incredible man of immense generosity. He’s there playing with us, he wants us all to do our best..
Daughter and father in “Quieto”, a work by Florencia Naftulewicz, in which she stars alongside Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. Photo: Irish Suarez-Is there anything you learned from him?
-All. He himself told us: “I had never done independent theater and we always have to learn new things.” And this is a great lesson for us. That with all the experience he has and being able to do any type of theater, he wants to investigate with us those waters, which for him are completely unknown territory. Having the chance to just be with him for an hour on stage, for me It’s like having a theater lesson at every rehearsal.
The actress who separates from the author
It is not the first time that Florencia has taken on the double challenge of playing a character she wrote herself.. However, she is always ready to carry out this task.
“Since I wrote the material, at the beginning it’s always a job to leave the author and let the actress come. It was something very beautiful and taught me a lot. It’s not the first time I do it, but it’s always new learning and a new challenge,” explains the playwright.
Florencia Naftulewicz stands out as a playwright and as an actress. Photo: Irish Suarez-Did the final product turn out to be very different from what you thought when it was still in your mind?
-Yes. The amazing thing is that when you write you’re alone, it’s a very individual process. We spend months alone in front of the computer. And then when you meet the team it’s incredible. The director put his mark and his look. I delivered the material with all the love in the world and the lyrics are a trigger. Everything that is created and what is generated after is already part of the team and the director’s vision.
-What do you hope people take away with them after seeing “Quieto”?
-That people can come to the theater with what is happening in the country, sit down, enter our game and forget about what is happening outside, for me it is a lot.
Furthermore, I would like the spectator to be able to leave the theater thinking how difficult and how beautiful the bonds between fathers and children or between mothers and children can be. Let’s put ourselves in the mirror. Sometimes we can’t say certain things, not because we don’t want to, but because we really can’t. I think the work tries to explain this a bit, that it’s not a question of evil, it’s a question of not being able to do it.
A scene from “Quieto”, with Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Florencia Naftulewicz.Information
Still will debut on Friday 2 February at NÜN Teatro Bar (Juan Ramírez de Velasco 419). The shows will be held every Friday at 9pm and Saturday at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased online on Alternativa Teatral (www.attivateatral.com.ar).
Source: Clarin
