Qorihuaman was a play with no words, with only two actors and a LOT of actions. In this play more than a story, there were images contrasted one to each other. The maina ctor was a man fully painted in white wearing nothing but shorts, the second actor wore a mask all the time and carried a bag on his back in which he transported different clothes he gave later on to the man in white. One of the few props was a bed, a naked bed with no mattress which was used to represent a prison and used as a ladder for the character to climb on to.
To describe this paly is really difficult, everyone in the audience understand the same basic thing from this play, the search of freedom, how ever each of us understand different themes in the paly such as the strong bonds between a mother and her child, the abuse of the minorities and the allienation to different individuals.
As I previoulsy mentioned there are a lot of actions and a lot of bodywork involved, the actor tries to the back of the scenery but is prohibited from entering by a wall, an imaginary wall, the actor then tries to escape from it and rolls throguh this wall. Afterwards the man in white climbs to the roof of the scenery and hangs from a rope.
In this paly we are presented with different images, a remarkable one is when the man in white dresses fully in golden clothes and then acts as a pregnant woman. For this the actor wears a mask and we´ve been told a mask does not hide you form others, on the contrary, it reveals who you truly are. Therefore when the man in white wears the golden mask it is shown his tru personality and it is up to us to decide whether or not he represents a woman whose child has been taken away.
In conclusion this play was a different experience from others we´ve seen this year, it is a play in which even though there´s is a storyline we can follow and even if some themes are clearly established, we can interpret every image and action presented.
After watching the play and paying attention to the themes in it im stil left with a question, why is there such a big presence of the color white, why are the characters dressed/painted in white and what does it truly represent?
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the idea of the final question is that it shows your reflection about some aspect of theatre that sparks from the specific play you watched, it is not meant to be a question about a particular aspect of a play that you didn't understand
ResponderEliminarwhen we say that a mask reveals the true self and we wear a mask representing a person from the opposite sex we can't say we are truly from the opposite sex but that we are revealing the feminine or masculine side that everybody has
i would have liked you to include your global vision of the play along with your thoughts on how the different effects were achieved, and their role in the whole play. you talk about possibilities of interpretation but we also have to see your actual interpretations
roberto