Today, we went to a play named "Sin titulo".
Yuyachkani theatre shows new ways of performing a play.
In this play we went, i saw things i´ve never seen in other plays such as; movement of characters along a room, reading some texts on the characters clothes, the scenery movement and other things. But this were the three ones that made me had great surprise.
Up to now, im not quite sure how i´m supposed to write a blog but i´m doing my best effort.
Firstly, when you entered the room... it seemed as if you´ve entered a museum. Each panel showed you the story of what happened after the war with chile. The actors were stand up next to a panel in still picture.
The play began when the actors started talking while making eco in each part of the room... it was really creepy but it helped you to hear some words you couldn't hear just by the first time.
After that all the characters where put on top of a table that moved with help and were taken to the centre of the room. Each character was located in a table higher o lower that the other. They were at different levels but by little. All the characters were acting in mute and each one was pretty different.
Lights also did had his time. All the room was dark except the characters.
They played with the lights when they had a character speaking while the oder ones were just being transported from a place to another, also when they focused the flag. The lights were specially used in my opinion to make characters be the focus or to try and select another place of the room with another scene.
The characters were at the most of their time changing their clothes.
They used long dresses, short dresses, etc.
My favorite and most interesting costume was the long dress which had written some words on it and was focused with a flashlight. In my opinion it was very creative but at the same time a little bit difficult to read because of the little light and some small letters from it.
I didnt had any favorite character but i must admit they were really good at acting. I enjoyed the part when two characters put on a mask of judges and start moving funny and expressing everything with their bodys just like they did in commedia dell arte where they had to express everything by their body because they werent able to show their facial expressions.
Music was okay for me, sometimes in my opinion sound like it shouldnt be put for that scene. For example in the first part when ever character is running from one part to another because of the war.... i found it pretty boring. It didnt heard at all as a music for them to run off.
But the other ones where ok.
It wasnt to difficult as i thought it was going to be and i had fun in it.
Nicole.