Monday we go see play. Play called La cocina. I enjoy play. Now I blog play. Yes. Blog play. Lets blog play.
There was a particular part of the play that caught my attention. It was where the chaos turned into order. Where sounds made music, and our brains lied. (like arnold Schwazenegger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wk-jT9rn-8 )
Theatre is playing with our minds.
In the scene we could first, blindly see everyone cooking, until we realized that they were just doing nothing. They were passing the things in circles and doing absolutely nothing and everything was exagerated and stupidly big and noisy. Still, it worked very well.
The waitresses were just dancing around and moving their legs around. That is what peruvian ignorant-stereotipical audiences want. (just look at TV series, peruvian magazines and newspapers…and not to mention el comercio’s website, where you can certainly see biased political stories, how our football team lost last night, and the photo shoot of some model with big boobs.)
GETTING BACK ON TRACK
WHAT WAS THERE: actors moving objects and making a lot of noise
WHAT DID IT REPRESENT: cooking
HOW DID IT REPRESENT IT? I don’t know.
-> When they first said they were going to cook, you imagined they were actually doing it, and there was the smell on the auditorium of food passing through the Maillard reaction. This gave an ambience of food being cooked. Until you realized that they were actually doing nothing.
At this point where you find out what they are doing, you don’t really care because the choreography was pretty well organized, fast pase, good rhythm and movements changed fast, you didn’t get bored of watching the same over and over again.
It represented very well the kitchen with everyone constantly working. Artaud would have been pleased. Nofap right?
This fitted the play more than another approach to a cooking scene since it was a comedy… and not for people that wanted to think a lot. This piece of the puzzle has a kinky shape but looks good. A slow, realistic cooking scene would have broken the whole play. And a puzzle with a broken piece is not complete. The scene is the broken glass to the balloon, for a broken balloon cannot break the glass.
Levels well fully explored, things were throwned into the air. Space was fully occupied. Everyone was happening constantly and changing constantly and you could not realize everything that was happening at every moment. Which caused Chaos. But everything made sense.
Uuh se me acabaron las ideas… necesito keke de mayita…
The scene is like a european highway to the play. You can’t go slower but you can go as fast as you like. It helps to the play because you can see it as a transition period. Fast-forward time. It is supposed to represent the 5-hour or more work time that they are doing shortened to a massive 2-minute in which everything happens… and then they are done. Like a one act play with 2 intermissions? Not intermissions but just a transition in which time is going a lot faster on stage than you think.
Although that is only my opinion, I think its pretty coherent.
And we all know that “Las cosas no tienen sentido. TU les das el sentido” – Antonin Artaud Roberto
So the cooking is a fast forwarding transition on stage without any cuts, but showing everything that happens. Which is pretty original.
The idea of having a fast-forwarding time at normal speed is what makes theatre create itself in your mind. It is not happening faster, you just think it is, you just accept the fact that a lot of time just passed, but you wouldn’t had accepted the fact if it was not on stage. Why do our minds create things and relate different things when we see something just because it is a play? Why would we think something is different or acceptable just because it is portrayed on a stage? Is it the stage or the actor that make this things happen? But if it is the stage… what is an stage? Anywhere could be a stage? Who decides what is the stage? Or is there actually no stage? And it all happens only in our minds because theatre is the art of making our minds create and accept things or facts that are not there?
Good final questions. Now try and be a little less literal and open your mind to the different forms of representation that can exist. Everything does not have to be represented in the same way.
ResponderEliminarYou answer to "WHat was there?" is incomplete, and thus you cannot go far.
It is not the stage. It is the actors who make things happen.
And yes, the single fact that it is a play makes us see it in a different way than the real world. Because it is not the real world - it is a play. And it plays on.
Roberto