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Author and director: Mariano Tenconi Blanco. Performers: Mamen Duch, Marta Pérez, Carme Pla, Àgata Roca. Musicians on stage: Ian Shifres (piano), Lucía Gómez (cello). Locker room: Alejandro Andújar. Scenography: Rodrigo González. Lightning: Matías Sendón. Sound: Damien Bazin. Hall: San Martín Theater, Corrientes 1530. Features: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday, at 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Duration: 100 minutes. Our opinion: very good.
The Catalan company T de Teatre He has a very outstanding career. Created in 1991, over the years it has premiered 12 shows. They performed in Buenos Aires twice, in 1998 and in 2018. They have worked with well-known Spanish authors and directors and also with Argentine creators, such as Javier Daulte (How is it possible that I love you so much?) and Ciro Zorzoli (Rewards and punishments).
In this new visit to Argentina they arrive with a piece created and directed by Mariano Tenconi Blanco. The ghost woman It is material conceived for these four actresses. A brief prologue leaves floating questions about the meaning of life and theater. Then there will be a series of monologues, set in the 70s, that will give an account of the story of four teachers from a girls’ high school.
Delia (Marta Pérez) has been abandoned by her husband and it is difficult for her to recognize herself in solitude, while she tries to investigate who is that Argentine woman who has conquered the man of her life. Lena (Mamen Duch) narrates the alternatives of her mother’s illness and death while she falls in love with the doctor who treated her. Iris (Ágata Roca) gets involved with a gym teacher whom she decides to abandon after having a passionate romance.
To these three stories that remain anchored in situations of loss and mourning, is added that of Nadia (Carmen Pla). This teacher had suffered an outbreak the previous year (no details are given about that episode) and the director of the establishment where she works has taken away the possibility of being in charge of a course and proposes that she direct a play.
Here the show would seem to change course. The experience of leading a group of students in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and in a room in which ghosts appear, they give the author the possibility of proposing to the viewer a series of intense reflections on making theater, the value of acting, the act of giving life to different characters and all this in the frame of a light-hearted comedy in which the spirit of Margarita Xirgu (the data is cited as in passing). And that spirit or that of so many others becomes a powerful engine that drags the action to the end and reveals the true intention of this production.
Although this description is too synthetic when it comes to describing the many events and sufferings that these characters must face, Mariano Tenconi Blanco builds an exquisite dramaturgy that not only shows these four creatures in a state of vitality such that the viewer cannot You will be able to escape each moment that is narrated. In his procedure, the author, as he did in his work The extraordinary lifecrosses strictly theatrical texts with letters and also poems. Materials that are linked in a perfect way and that make it possible to enhance, not only the characters, but also help to define an extremely attractive acting style.
The four performers have extremely notable qualities. They bring these characters to life with such elaborate intentionality that you can’t help but get trapped in each of those personal worlds, full of contradictions. Those women who recreate are pathetic at times and at others, extremely endearing.
Without a doubt, the T Theater Company has achieved notable growth over the years. Those wild young women who appeared as a surprise in the 90s are still wild today, but they have found a poetic register in their work that exposes them in a very safe way when it comes to standing on stage and playing, andIn this case, guided by Tenconi Blanco. The director, so fond of diving into the feminine world (the aforementioned The extraordinary life either The captives) and discover unexpected emotional issues there, together with these actresses he manages to magnify his work. Here she demonstrates very well that she is capable of entering the creative process of a very consolidated company and leading it along a path in which the energies of one part and the other mix and produce a theatrical event that the spectators enjoy with enthusiasm. . Especially because some very genuine creative tools are deployed on stage.
