Lima, May 7 (EFE).- ‘The Magician of the Tables’, a book that brings together intimate testimonies and personal material, was presented this Tuesday in Lima in tribute to the work and legacy of director Carlos Tolentino, one of the most outstanding references of Peruvian theater.
The book, which is co-authored by Attilia Boschetti, Liliana Galván and Daniel Goya, recognizes “the profound montage that” Tolentino “offered as a human being through his poetic vision, his intimate relationship with the invisible, the inexplicable and the imperishable. “said its editors from the University of Applied Sciences (UPC).
It is “an intimate approach to Carlos’ purpose and search, to the people he loved and inspired, to his vast work and great legacy. We hope that, through this rotoscope, the images collected and the voices heard resonate with their magic impregnated in every memory,” added Boschetti, who was Tolentino’s wife.
In that sense, the book brings together material from the director’s personal archive, such as scripts, writings and newspaper clippings, as well as testimonies from well-known national actors such as Carlos Alcántara, Adolfo Aguilar, Jason Day, Francisco Cabrera and Emmanuel Soriano.
Tolentino, who died in Lima in September 2020, initially trained as a film director and, from this experience, he ventured into theater direction.
The director studied at the University of Lima and lived for a decade in Italy, after which he continued his career in his country, where he was a professor at the University of Applied Sciences (UPC) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).
In 2006 he became the first director to stage the play ‘Her Open Eyes’, written by the Uruguayan theater director Raquel Diana after overcoming a coma in 2000.
The work of the also member of the legendary Uruguayan group ‘Galpón’ had its world premiere in Lima, where it was performed with critical and popular success by Boschetti.
In his desire to rescue Peruvian figures for the new generations, Tolentino brought to the stage ‘El Plebeyo’ in 2017, a musical work focused on the life of Felipe Pinglo, the great representative of Peruvian Creole music (1899-1936).
At the beginning of March 2020, he re-staged the Spanish drama ‘La Golondrina’ in Lima, by the Catalan Guillen Clua, inspired by the terrorist and homophobic attack on the Pulse gay bar in Orlando (United States), which in 2016 left 49 dead.
During his career as a theater director, he also staged other notable works such as ‘You were all my children’ (2014), ‘Report on the banality of love’ (2016) and ‘The time of longings’ (2018), inspired by the famous story ‘Casa taken’, by the Argentine Julio Cortázar.
‘The Magician of the Tables’ was presented at the British Theater in the Lima district of Miraflores, in a ceremony that included the projection of a video with excerpts from works by Tolentino and the staging of texts by the director included in the book.
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