I am going to speak about the theatre play of “las variaciones Goldberg” of George Tabori.

This play was directed by Josep Maria Mestres and he took the version of Pedro Montalbán Kroebel, and this version was translated by Antoni LLuch. The company of theatre that represented the play was “Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana ”.

The play took place in Valencia in the Rialto theatre, and it was on the first of November of the 2005 , at 19.00hh.

Technical distribution:

Set design: Pep Durán.

Dress design: Nina Pavlowsky.

Illumination design: Juanjo Llorens.

Original songs: Alberto Torres Blandina.

Image: Sandra Figuerola and Marissa Gallent.

Characterization: Inma Fuentes.

Direction helper: Joan Miquel Reig.

Photographical feature: Vicente A. Jiménez.

Music: Rafael Bono.

Video: mediterranea multimedia.

Delegated production: Pepe Miravete.

Artistically distribution:

Mr Jota: Enrric Benavent.

Goldberg: Josep Manel Casany.

Raamah: Jansa LLoret.

Mash: Ferran Gadea.

Jafet: Manolo Ochoa.

Mari: Cristina García.

Ernestina Van Veen: Iolanda Muñoz.

Teresa Tormentina: Núria García.

Angels of the hell: Manolo Maestro-Jordi Gomar and Pau Blanco.

Dramatis personae:

I am going to describe the main characters of the play physically and psychologically.

I think the main characters in this play are Mr Jota and Goldberd that represent the contrary one respect to the other.

The first in the play has a very important paper because he represents god. And the other represents Jesus. The first is arrogant and he always is making people feeling sad because he takes his power and he does not share it.

The other one: Goldberg knows to listen everybody and he is the main character at the end while Mr Jota is behind of the theatre looking the spectacle like one of us.

I want to explain with these words the nature of them.

The corporal expression is very important because it shows us if the person is nervous, pacifically etc… in this case Mr Jota is always moving his self , he is always nervous because the things are not what he wanted. By the contrast Goldberg always is quiet.

In general the dresses are very original, overcoat, in the chorus of the Jewish, the dresses were modern, and the colour was red. I make the song more potent.

The place was combining the stage and the seats. It makes to us feel more into the play. The stage was a little small but it has a big ladder where the character represented the play.

The lights were combining in the acts if the act was of panic: the colour was red. When the act is important: there were all the lights. If it was only a character: there was only a light etc…

The public was very attentive, because, as I have said the characters were with us. In the moment of the song of the Jewish everybody was nervous; we do not know what to do because they were touching us!!

In my opinion is a very good play. I liked very much and I enjoyed a lot.

This was a very interesting play because it combines the drama with the comedy and I like this type of theatre a lot.