drammaturgia e regia di Romina Paula
durata: 1h 30m | Paese: Argentina | Lingue: spagnola con sottotitoli in italiano
Teatro di Corte di Palazzo Reale – 15/06/2012, 19:00 – 16/06/2012, 20:00
Ispirato a Lo Zoo Di Vetro di Tennessee Williams
Produzione El Silencio (Buenos Aires) con Ligne Directe/Judith Martin (Paris)
Prima italiana
The idea of this performance was born when Romina Paula studied drama at EMAD (Escuela Metropolitana de Arte Dramático) in Buenos Aires and was working on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
Unable to cover the costs of the copyright dues, the young director decided to write her own version entitled El tiempo todo entero. Grafted onto Tennessee Williams’ characters, Romina Paula moves the story into the mind of the protagonist: Laura (in the new text Antonia) is transformed into a strong and highly responsible woman, far from the delicate, fragile and defenceless creature who collected “glass animals”. Similarly, whereas in the original version the only obsession of the mother is to find a husband for her daughter, in Paula’s version, she is a modern and emancipated woman, typical of today’s Buenos Aires.
Moving away from the Williams’ symbolism, the characters of El tiempo todo entero appear as being liberated, responsible for their own choices, and free from any form of external conditioning. Nevertheless, without the burden of those puritan social constrictions of the United States in the post war period, we can still see the same destinies of the characters in The Glass Menagerie.
