The wonderful things: Peter Lanzani and an essential list for enjoying life

Transmit The beauty of simplicity It is one of the goals it achieves. wonderful thingsconducted by Peter Lanzani and an original production directed by Dalia Elnecavé. The intimate tone that this personal show requires is well resolved by moving all its scaffolding onto the stage: there the actor and the audience share the space in the Comafi Multiteatro.

Text by Englishmen Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe (which has been seen in many parts of the world), with a local translation and a version by Pablo Gershanik, reviews all for which, according to the protagonist, it is worth living. Some are universal themes and others more local, some irremediably common to any human being and others intimately personal.

From the narration of the protagonist Peter Lanzani, who is also its guest, these little things are enhanced when the reason for their enumeration is revealed: the list is for his motheras a gesture of love to help her overcome a deep depression, on the verge of suicide.

Neither excessive drama nor easy tears

Precisely this aspect, that of mental health to which the character refers, is central to the story, an unusual topic and, in this case, faced from a point of view that avoids falling into excessive drama or easy tears. . Quite the opposite: light and subtle humor abounds which allows us to talk about that pain more clearly without taking it seriously.

The story of the protagonist who, in addition to listing those things (very few are material) that give him joy, tenderness or a little happiness, also traces different moments of his life and the relationship with the environment at every stage, unfolds as a natural unwound thread. Y is shared with the public very closely, face to face, hand in hand.

This mode is one of the successes of the setting as it runs a little off the more traditional in the middle of Corrientes Avenue. The proposal appeals to a purely sensitive and sensorial material of which the public, yes or yes, is a part, in a question and answer with the actor.

When the charisma is needed

And it is Peter Lanzani’s charisma that does the rest. The actor manages to empathize with the audience from before the start to tell his story, generating a relaxed and warm atmosphere, essential to immerse yourself headlong into history and take each spectator with him, on that inner journey.

With subtlety, tenderness, sympathy and even malice it realizes what the work needs, that the public’s leading role does not decline in front of its history. After all, this is what spectators are for, to share and assist the protagonist, to contain him.

In this sense, each function (which for this reason limits its tickets to the minimum capacity of the room), will have the imprint that is born between Lanzani and each group. That amount of unpredictability, even minimal, adds sensitivity to the encounter.

The production of the work, at the head of the group formed by Eloísa Canton, Bruno Pedemonti, Tomás Rottemberg and Michel Haussman, is betting on an idea that, although not new in the Buenos Aires program, in the commercial circuit and above all, in Viale Correnti , it turns out some fresh air for the regular audience.

In the list there are songs, special moments, people who have left traces, loved ones, books, films, more songs, sensations, fantasies, dreams, aromas, colors, flavors, words, special memories and even little things of everyday life that invite you to build your list, review, update and enjoy those wonderful things that give us sparks of happiness.

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With: Pietro Lanzani Address: Dalia Elnecavé Theater: Comafi Multiteatro, Av. Corrientes 1283. Functions: Monday and Tuesday, 8pm. Limited tickets through Plateanet, starting at $ 3000.

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