By:
Mirari Martiarena and Idoia Torrealdai.
When: 6 December.
Where: In the San Agustín cultural center of Durango.

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The fourth wall breaks and interferes directly, standing and fearless. ZtandaP is a way of counting from humor a view of life through everyday situations and influencing the public.

This year the Durango Fair has organized around 200 activities, including ten short pieces that have been offered one after the other at Szenatokia. The tail of the Cultural Center, however, was almost 500 meters high. People, hungry for consumption, were anywhere and in any way, and the receivers of one show and the other show came together. In fact, because of issues of capacity, they had to set limits on a number of occasions, leaving people out. Before the show ZtandaP there was another monologue and then the projection of an audiovisual. I don't know if the people who came to him wanted to see him explicitly, but the room was up to the neck.

It is also difficult to deny the expectation and emotion produced by two humorist women. The discipline of the monologue and humorist is spreading more and more in the Basque Country. In this area, however, the presence of women is scarce and Mirari Martiarena and Idoia Torrealdai are aware of this. It's ZtandaP's third job, and in this case, they've had the same gender as a motive for humor.

Two color jackets enter the scene to seduce the audience with a fresh attitude. They bring to the scene themes that have been heard many times in monologues: love, domestic chores, orgasms, ways of linking… How do household chores be distributed and what attitude does man and woman adopt? Do we have the ability to communicate in sex and what happens when it doesn't exist? Why is it sexualized to say I'm looking for someone with hot legs? They seem like serious questions. And there are. It is precisely for that reason that they have raised them, from a desire to claim and to give answers to the public.

Despite humor and laughter, the subject and perspective have not seemed innovative to me. We've heard a lot of monologues talking about what men and women are like, usually full of clichés and based on gender inequality in all of them. Neither Martía nor Torrealdai break with that. They have worked on the same issues and told it from the voice of women. It is true that this already has a treatment that is not just humor and oppression, like others, because the story is not a top-down story in this case. But it's not that it really breaks stereotypes, it's that, by shifting the focus, it means seeing another side of reality. In any case, get the audience to laugh and get a needle into global thinking.