Work: Winona & Grace
Company: Khea Ziater.
When: 29 October.
Where: Sala Juanba Berasategi de Pasai Donibane.
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The easiest condition to feel comfortable on the stage is to represent a character or situation. Both the actor who follows the script and the actor who knows that the viewer is willing to listen to it is not afraid; the adrenaline is the one that takes his body and his brain. But if you were the one in everyone's eyes?
Winona and Grace are two actors in very different conditions. One is famous and doesn't lack work, but the other only stops in the attempt. The work mixes the weight of fame and the burden of what it cannot achieve, represents the idyllic and mystified world of artists, but here nobody is happy. The characters want to criticize this by talking about their gray lives and from their arguments and experiences.
The housewives of the empty life that her husband treats as children and the waiters of a cafeteria that wants her partner to marry him, they take their car and flee the routine of their lives, putting all the frustrations in the trunk. These lines form the synopsis of the famous Hollywood film Telma and Louise, but are directly related to the intent of Ainhoa Artetxe and Graciela Doniz. The work has been put on several occasions in the face of the American city, with direct reference to a second: Night on Earth. The actress Winona Rider acts as a taxi driver in this film and receives a prestigious director represented by Gena Rowlands in her car. These two films are part of the characters and the work environment: the owner, the character of the two protagonists, the facts and the style. They go deep into a distant world. The decision is risky, which can prevent the viewer from entering the play. I, at least, have approached the theatre rather skeptical to start the titles, because it has not seduced me, because it has taken me to Hollywood. A luxury lounge and the actress who has received Goya break the initial silence, which I found most topical. But creators have never hidden that purpose, but they have exploded it and brought it to their field.
At the same time, they have blended the theatre with the languages of the cinema, and they have made it right with it, for it has marvelled at the staging and has given meaning to the drama. The use of screens and videos has represented a different world that adds to what was being seen live. And here it begins to undress the onion: two actresses that don't know if they like to be actresses. Film and theater. External references include. Deep inner thoughts and reflections that show intimacy from the distance of the screen. Intentions of creators and characters in secret. Two people heard literally, also metaphorically. Two friends who don't know each other. The mythical imaginary of the famous, who also criticize. And to create more subworlds, the drug's atmosphere. In short, a reality disguised as fiction within reality.