La Zaranda, the Spanish theater company, will make another visit to Argentina.
Once again, the Spanish group La Zaranda will be on tour in Argentina, where they will present their latest creation, The battle of the absentpremiered in 2021. Starting from August 10ththey will perform at the Teatro Regio (Av.Córdoba 6056), belonging to the Theater Complex of Buenos Aires (CTBA), where they will remain until 28 August.
The interpreters of this new creation of the prestigious Andalusian company proclaimed themselves as Unstable theater of nothingness They are Francisco Sánchez, Gaspar Campuzano and Enrique Bustos. The text is by Eusebio Calonge and directed by Paco de La Zaranda, as in the productions of recent years.
In this new show we talk about life with the metaphor of a fightwhere the three classic actors of Zaranda, its hard core, are the remains of an army in disarray, in this war without quarter that has lasted for more than forty years.
With the language as a flag
As usual in the creations of this traditional company, the language is its flag in a world that threatens the poetic sense of existence. Everything refers to the useless fight, which seems to be our cultural essence, already almost quixotic. The new creation of the Andalusians highlights, in a satirical tone, dignity and faith as an act of resistance, but with an epic sense.
La Zaranda presents The Battle of the Absents, for the whole month of August at the Teatro Regio.
His characters, as usually happens, represent the always defeated but never defeatedsurvivors in a war against oblivion fighting a war that nobody cares about.
La Zaranda Company has been doing theater for more than forty years, with a particular identity that has earned it great international prestige. His career has theatrical constants: existential commitment and starting from its traditional roots to reveal a universal symbolism.
Furthermore, as dramatic resources they are distinguished by the search for a transcendent poetics without losing everyday life, the symbolic use of objects, visual expressiveness, the embodiment of texts in theatrical situations and the embodiment of living characters. To this is added to absolute belief in the process of creation in the community.
Worldwide
In these four decades, with their unique vision of life and theater, they have toured festivals in more than thirty countries, in Germany, the United States, France, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Chile and even Argentina, where they usually present many of his creations.
The origin of La Zaranda dates back to 1978 and at the time the premise was “Take a journey”: wanting to bring the show to that point of tension where drama and life collidemoving away from any possible academicism and alleged avant-gardes.
La Zaranda, in a performance of “Now everything is night”, which they did at the El Picadero theater, in 2018.
As they themselves describe their way of doing theater, “to avoid yawning” is “to go beyond the acquired forms, not stop searching, renounce the achievements that can establish routine, reinforce a style in perpetual transition”
And they add: “The action of creating is important. Do not make artistic preserves that open in every performance. We must maintain the tension, risk it in every situation, develop every stage reality in its living evolution”.
Among the works created in recent years there are The scrapping of the muses, Now everything is night, The cry in the sky, The diet, Nobody wants to believe it, Future dead, Those who laugh last, Homage to the damned, Not even the shadow of what we were, The narrow door Y When eternal life is overMoreover.
The functions of The battle of the absent at the Regio they will be from Wednesday to Sunday at 8pm, at the Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), with tickets for $ 1850.
Source: Clarin
