How to laugh even from own death

Everything depends on how you look. First, old age, death and disease These are terms that sound, at least, in a strong way. However, it doesn’t always have to be like that. Far from addressing these realities from hardness, Fernando Delgado-Hierro They are taken with humor, which is, as explained, “A lifeboat”.

With that spirit he faces from the stage, next to Pablo Chavesthis continuation of the successful ‘Los Remedios’. They return like this with ‘The appearances’where they will be directed again by Juan Ceacerowho does not hide that “this work suffers and suffers. It is a painful and complex trip … but very funny For the public, “says a man who fights bitterness with” irony “tons.

Within the hope that the function gives off, Delgado-Hierro is committed to laughter, because “he has the ritual power of returning his life to things. And, since we were small, which made me be a friend of Paul is that We laugh even from our own shadow“, he acknowledges.” We will try here to laugh together, once again, even our own death. “

A childish faith

The new production is presented as “a self -fiction to the future.” A piece that wonders what is yet to come and the ability of the bodies on stage to do what is present. “Ask the theater to show us the future is perhaps to ask theater too much. an almost childish faitha blind belief in fertility to conceive mysteries that has that territory of the scenic, “explains Delgado-Hierro, as responsible for the text.

The attempt, even so, “is serious,” says the author. They are placed in front of the public and try, “with all our strength, make the impossible appear.” The attempt returns disturbing questions, they point out: “Why do I have such a tendency to imagine sad futures for myself? Why does misfortune seem more interesting? The habit of fiction is crossed with biography and one barely knows how to distinguish them. How far am I going, how much I am willing to sacrifice in that altar of the theater?”.

In the scene, Fernando and Pablo are Two childhood friends who grew together in the same neighborhood and that are now in that hinge that is half of life. They wonder about the roads that the future will take; and if they will escape from repeating the cycles that define them; And if the daughter will remind the mother; and if their elderly bodies will inhabit expressions similar to those of their grandparents; And if the branches and roots look like …

It is a trip that travels from the “where we come to where we are going”, they defend from that path “From the neighborhood to the other neighborhood”. In it they will display all the questions, fears and their own desires, also worse of a generation. “We are going to die and in this show there will be death in abundance. Will we know who we are before this ends?” They wonder.

In the mouth of Ceacero, he has created “an exercise of memory in which the wishes themselves appear, which you would like to happen.”

However, ‘the appearances’, as was the case in ‘Los Remedios’, is a non -linear assembly that presents scenes full of comic that They invite the public to reflect on the soul Honduras. “Inhabiting a story that has not happened is interesting to me,” assumes a Pablo Chaves that ensures that this piece is an exercise that is afraid of, “Yuyu”, among others, for the appearance of his mother’s death: “I was very impressed.”