The work deepens family ties, between affections and secrets. Photo: Ximena Duhalde.
A father crossed by a tragedy on the high seas. A fisherman who survived a shipwreck fifteen years ago, in which a child saved by the fisherman also survived. He raises him with his wife. They never tell you their story. Until now. These are the axes of the voice of the snail, the first work of Paolo Mizewho besides being a playwright is a psychoanalyst.
Directed by Sebastiano Vigothe work will be premiered on 1 September in the Area 623 room (Pasco 623), in Balvanera, and that He will perform every Thursday at 8pm.. Its protagonists are Paula Mujica Lainez, Daniel Goglino and Camila Bernadaz.
Vigo is, in addition to being a director, actor, playwright and teacher, trained with Tina Serrano, Lorenzo Quinteros, Pompeyo Audivert, Ricardo Bartís, Mauricio Kartun and Guillermo Saccomanno. He is also a member of the jury of the Fundación ArteVivo dramaturgy prize and has directed, among others, the latest diva.
“The voice of the snail” will have functions every Thursday from 1 September. Photo: Ximena Duhalde.
A word from Pablo Mizes
The author explains it the work refers to the founding drama of a family. “Each of the members is crossed by an obsession: Ismael (the father), for having understood the sinking of his ship at the origin of the tragedy; Marina, (the daughter) for having known her story and Nerea (the mother) , to break down the unspeakable, “he says.
And he adds: “The marine world serves as a metaphor for a drama in which truth emerges trying to break the silence. It is about the construction of an aquatic universe, where at every step the plot is revealed through the voice of a snail“According to Mizes, the figure of the snail, like a whisper, tells us the traumatic origin of the story of life.
Furthermore, the work is a visual and auditory experimentation project that tries to find meaning beyond a realistic-naturalistic style of reproduction, which usually comes from a text. And it has the participation of the singer and composer Giulia Mize on stage.
The poster of “The voice of the snail”.
According to the director, “as a working group we agree on narrative principles and we try to capture them with the multimedia resources we are interested in exploring”, he says: “The dramatic text accompanies us in the experience. We make theater by letting the text circulate among us”.
Who is who at the beginning
The team of the voice of the snail has a great experience. Paula Mujica Lainez is an actress, teacher and theater director, and she has acted under the direction of Lorenzo Quinteros, Daniel Marcove, Norman Briski and Enrique Masllorens, among others.
Daniel Goglino is an actor, director and theater teacher, he has participated in the Teatro de la Complicité in England and in the Odin Teatret in Denmark. She also trained in contemporary dance and singing. In some of his works he was directed by Alejandra Boero, Julio Baccaro, Alejandro Samek, Claudio Tolcachir and Gabriela Izcovich.
Scene from a rehearsal of “La voz del caracol” before its premiere, in Area 623. Photo: Ximena Duhalde.
For her part, Camila Bernadaz trained in acting at UNA, in workshops at the San Martín Cultural Center and at the Sportivo Teatral, as well as studying dance and singing, while singer and composer Julia Mizes studied singing with Sebastián Matiassi and María Heinen e, guitar with Facundo Menéndez.
The visual design of the work is in charge of Pablo Varela, Bachelor of Multimedia Arts (UNA), where he is also a teacher, as well as working as a photographer and Art Director of several audiovisual performances.
Head of lighting design is Alfonsina Stivelman, who as a visual artist has worked for exhibitions in Argentina, Holland, Italy, France, Germany, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Venezuela. In addition, she created the multi-space light work Green Light Project.
The costumes are the responsibility of Jorge López, with extensive experience in theater, opera, dance, musical, circus, film and television. He collaborated with Cirque du Soleil in Seventh day; in musicals Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Phantom of the Opera and in the cinema, in movies Zamak by Lucrezia Martel e Aunt from Buenos Aires Teresa Costantini; It’s inside Cinderella at the Teatro Colón, among others.
Julieta Urri, a graduate of the National University of Arts, is in charge of scenography. You also studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and at the ISATC (Higher Art Institute of the Colón Theater), with works at the CTBA (Theater Complex of Buenos Aires), at the CETC and at the Cervantes National Theater, among others.
Meanwhile, the dramaturgy of the body is by Andrea Mizesdirector of HUELLAS Study and Research of corporality today, as well as didactic collaborator of Studio Corazza for acting, which directed by the Argentine Juan Carlos Corazza in Madrid. Psycho-body psychotherapist, with training in dance, theater, mime, puppetry and eutony, works related to the theater.
“We are looking for a work that invites the spectator who goes to the theater to complete with their imagination all that the scene keeps unexpressed”, says Mizes. “In a space based on counterforms and extractions of parts of reality from visual elements and strong contrasts of light and shadow, we define our search for an abstract theater“.
According to the author, space is not an envelope within which some things happen, but a dynamic element of the entire dramaturgical conception and, from there, the necessary atmosphere is born to create a subjective universe.
the voice of the snail It will have functions on Thursdays at 20:00 in AREA 623 (Pasco 623), from 1 September. EventBrite Tickets www.eventbrite.com.ar.
Source: Clarin