They look like data from another era, but with our current power they are safe. 20 to 40% of Spanish men have paid some time to maintain sexual relationships. “Our country is the first in Europe and the third in the world. We are Spanish brands, now leading the ranking of consumption of prostitution“, says actress, director and playwright Sandra Ferrús.
He doesn’t say it here, but “consumption”—like “customer” or “service”—is one of those euphemisms that keep coming back to us, and above all, he keeps aside the conversation he has with El Cultural after arriving at Concha Delgado.
Both premiered at Teatro María Guerrero Utopia of llamasa piece that approaches the feminine feature with the end of sexual exploitation. “It’s hard to find the words,” they say. So sometimes you have to take care of the data again. Alrededor 80% of women and girls who are prostitutes are victims of this type of slavery today.
“Many times we turn to how to explain it. I imagine it could be done in many ways, but we want to find a way to share it and be able to see it.” And that form was show performative, very dynamic, surprising, poetic, exciting and terrifying.
Written by Alda Lozano through a process of documentation and investigation of the topic, Utopia of llamas It is defined by her as a collage portrait. “It is a chronicle of the tragedy in 20 photographs where we have the protagonist Niara, who tells us about our journeys from Nigeria until her death,” explains Ferrús. But in this story, which also tells about the intentions of Alika, her partner in Utopia, one of the street clubs on the outskirts of the cities, she is not completely alone.
Roberto Hoyo during the performance of ‘Utopía en lamas’. Photo: Bárbara Sánchez Palomero
This truncated story is merely a detonator, an excuse that serves as a backdrop to draw attention to them: the men who routinely slip in and out of this joke. “He talks to her anecdotally, doing violence that we don’t explicitly show, even though we appeal a lot to the senses“, comments the director.
“Many times the responsibility lies with women – why are they ahí?, what do they have?, what do they want or need? -. We plan to hear from you“, notes Delgado. Through this fable, supported by video, the work focuses on “those consumers of the store who seek us, the men we ask for”.
“The work has dances, laughter and discos. It has the envelope we need, as well as theater, to talk about this topic.” Sandra Ferrúsová
WITH a mostly male department of five actors –Roberto Hoyo, Jorge Machín, Rafa Núñez, Txabi Pérez and José Juan Rodríguez– and only one actress – her own Lozano– represent “the type of man who can be your friend, your friend, your companion, your teacher, your boyfriend… I’m not Torrente, on the contrary, I’m more beautiful”.
But they all have something in common, at some point in their lives they have taken care of one of these places, which, as both directors say, live on the story. “It is the type of exclave that always pays with povertywith those who are women who don’t identify as our chameleons or primas because they have less value because they’re not Western or European,” says Delgado.
This is where the theater allows you to place the focal point. “How do we account for this atrocity that we encounter when we travel to any city and see that there are a mountain of places with screaming women along the roads? Because this is passing.” Let’s help us with the tools we need from the theater to stop thinking for a while.’.
With a special scenic planteamiento, en Utopia of llamas everything produces, regardless, acceleration. Reflection is the most important thing to complete the work. “It is a show full of emotions, movements and images. Apelamos a la tripato the discourse, not to the explicit verbal one, but to the internal one,” continues Ferrús about this work, which counted on the scenography of Javier Burgos and the separate choreography of Dácil González. “We helped to tell the story always as a huyendo cliché about the masculine and the local communities,” notes Delgadomones.
And it is Utopiaalso if there is much of the body. “Of the sights, sounds and silences that matter as much or more than what you say. Work has dances, laughter, discos. It has the envelope we need, just like a theater, to talk, read and listen,” describes Ferrús.
Amid this orchestra, Lozano interprets all women. Utopia of llamas It is also the story of Kalina, Jelina or Alika. “We need Alda to count it for hundreds of years, considering the conditions of birth in the first world. In this sense, Delgado recalls, “it embodies in a metaphorical way, because we can compose characters, what we seek is the embodiment of truth and speech, to take this reality into our skin”. After all, from March 20 to April 26, only fire is enough to ignite Utopia. You have a brain.
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